Contribution of Ivan Gams to the Development of Slovene Karst Terminology

Author

Jurij Kunaver

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Publication Date

6-2003

Publication Title

Acta Casologica

Volume Number

32

Issue Number

2

Abstract

The stage of the scientific terminology is by all means one of the indicators of the development of the scientific branch, to which it belongs. Therefore the publishing of the Slovene karst terminology in 1973 was an important event for further development of Slovene karstology. Still more, the efforts for a comparative national karst terminologies of former common state Yugoslavia were successfully achieved in publishing the Serbian and Croatian karst terminology also, a year later. In fact, the former Association of the geographical societies of Yugoslavia decided to give full support to its subcommission in preparing the project Karst terminology of the Yugoslave nations and to a joint Yugoslave symposium on Karst terminology, held in Ljubljana from 22-23th October 1971, both guided and organised by prof. Ivan Gams, who was also the original initiator of this idea. All this efforts were newertheless combined and connected with the international work of that time to find most appropriate terms and definitions for the karst phenomena and to make them comparable in terms of national terminologies. Ivan Gams was therefore not only a most important promoter of the Slovene karst terminology and one of the leading persons of the scientific karstology in the time concerned but was due to his global ideas also one of the central persons in the international karstology

Keywords

Ivan Gams, Karstology, Terminology

Geographic Subject

Slovenia

Document Type

Article

Language

English and Slovenian

Identifier

K26-00148

Recommended Citation

Kunaver, Jurij, "Contribution of Ivan Gams to the Development of Slovene Karst Terminology" (2003). KIP Articles. 38.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/38