This article outlines the organisational work that ranks the Slavic specialist Rajko Nahtigal among the most important scholars and cultural figures of his time. After the socio-political changes of 1918, Nahtigal helped found the first Slovene university (until then an as yet unrealised element of the national programme) and initiated the establishment of the Ljubljana Scholarly Society for the Humanities, which despite a lack of funds published important works under his chairmanship. This society also created the foundations for the philological-historical class of the later Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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