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Slovene and Yugoslav jurist, politician, diplomat, author, and legal historian.
He often wrote under the pseudonym Illyricus also known under the name Bogomil Vošnjak
n 1909, on the 100th anniversary of the Napoleon's France establishment the Illyrian Provinces, Vošnjak wrote his first scientific monography, "The Constitution and Administration of the Illyrian Provinces".
Upon the outbreak of World War I, Vošnjak was mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army and sent to the Eastern Front in Galicia. He took advantage of a discharge in April 1915 to visit Gorizia, from where he crossed the border with Italy and fled to Venice and from there to Switzerland. Already in May of the same year, he published a book in French, entitled "The Question of Trieste", in which he advocated the unification of the city with a future Yugoslav state.
After the Communists took power in Yugoslavia in 1945, Vošnjak emigrated to the United States.