1. Maximilian Fabiani, commonly known as Max Fabiani was an Italian architect, born in the village of Kobdilj near Stanjel on the Karst Plateau, County of Gorizia and Gradisca, in present-day Slovenia.
11 Facts About Max Fabiani
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Max Fabiani grew up in a cosmopolitan trilingual environment: besides Italian, the language of his family, and Slovene, the language of his social environment, he learned German at a very young age.
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Max Fabiani came from a wealthy family that could afford to provide a good education for its 14 children.
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Max Fabiani attended elementary school in Kobdilj, and the German and Slovene-language Realschule in Ljubljana, where he was the best student in the class after seven years.
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Max Fabiani later moved to Vienna, where he attended architecture courses at the Vienna University of Technology.
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Max Fabiani was married and had two children; his son Lorenzo Fabiani was an agronomist and journalist and known anti-fascist.
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In 1917, Max Fabiani was named professor at the University of Vienna, and in 1919 one of his pupils, Ivan Vurnik, offered him a teaching position at the newly established University of Ljubljana, Max Fabiani however refused the offer, quit the teaching position in Vienna, and decided to settle in Gorizia, which had been annexed to the Kingdom of Italy, thus becoming an Italian citizen.
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In late 1935, Max Fabiani accepted the nomination for mayor of his native village of Stanjel.
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In 1944, Max Fabiani relocated back to Gorizia, where he lived until his death on 12 August 1962.
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Max Fabiani won a competition against the more historicist architect Camillo Sitte, and was chosen by the Ljubljana Town Council as the main urban planner.
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One of the reasons for this choice was Max Fabiani was considered by the Slovene Liberal Nationalists as a Slovene.