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Vasko Simoniti was born on 23 March, 1951 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is a Slovenian historian and politician. Discover Vasko Simoniti's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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72 years old |
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Aries |
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23 March 1951 |
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23 March |
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Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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Slovenia
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Vasko Simoniti Height, Weight & Measurements
At 72 years old, Vasko Simoniti height not available right now. We will update Vasko Simoniti's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Vasko Simoniti's Wife?
His wife is Alenka Zor Simoniti
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Alenka Zor Simoniti |
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Vasko Simoniti Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Vasko Simoniti worth at the age of 72 years old? Vasko Simoniti’s income source is mostly from being a successful historian. He is from Slovenia. We have estimated Vasko Simoniti's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Simoniti was born in Ljubljana as the son of the renowned composer and choir leader Rado Simoniti who had moved to the Slovenian capital from the Goriška region in the 1930s in order to escape the violent policies of Fascist Italianization in the Julian March.
Vasko attended the Classical Lyceum of Ljubljana.
Vasko Simoniti (born 23 March 1951) is a Slovenian historian and politician.
He studied at the University of Ljubljana, graduating with a degree in history in 1977.
After a short period of work in the public administration of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, he started teaching at the Ljubljana University in 1981.
In 1989 he obtained his PhD at the same university and started teaching history, specializing in Slovenian history from the 16th to the 18th century.
As a historian, he dedicated himself mostly to the history of Slovene Lands in the early modern period, especially the relations of the Slovene Lands and the Ottoman Empire.
He has also written on problems of methodology and epistemology in historical sciences.
In the late 1990s, he was the co-author, together with the writer and public intellectual Drago Jančar and journalist and historian Alenka Puhar, of the exhibition "The Dark Side of the Moon" (Temna stran meseca) on the authoritarian and totalitarian elements of the Communist dictatorship in the former Yugoslavia, with an emphasis on Slovenia.
He first became actively involved in politics in the parliamentary elections of 2000, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Slovenian National Assembly on the list of the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (now known as the Slovenian Democratic Party).
In the presidential elections of 2002, he served as the chief advisor of the centre-right candidate Barbara Brezigar who eventually lost against the centre-left candidate Janez Drnovšek.
Between 2004 and 2008, he served as the Minister of Culture of Slovenia, being reappointed in 2020.
He is an active member of the Slovenian Democratic Party.
In 2004, he was among the co-founders of the liberal conservative civic platform Rally for the Republic (Zbor za republiko).
Later in the same year, he became the Minister for Culture in the centre-right government led by prime minister Janez Janša.
After the victory of the left-wing coalition in 2008, he was replaced by Majda Širca.
In 2020, he was reappointed as Minister for Culture.
He is married to the journalist and TV host Alenka Zor Simoniti.
He is the brother of the diplomat Iztok Simoniti and cousin of the philologist and translator Primož Simoniti.
Besides Slovene, he is fluent in English, German, French, Italian and Serbo-Croatian.
