Edvard Kardelj, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edvard Kardelj

Yugoslav politician

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1910

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1979

Profession: writer, politician, partisan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Edvard Kardelj (pronounced ['é?d?a?t ka?'dé?l]; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known under the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and journalist from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II.
During the war Kardelj was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan, and after the war a federal political leader in socialist Yugoslavia who led the Yugoslav delegation that negotiated peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March.
He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management.
He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.