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Printer Albin Pogacnik
(1889-1934)
"Walk slowly, it will
take you further -
but make long steps!"
With these words begins the travel diary of
the printing assistant Albin Pogačnik in 1908
when, after schooling in Budapest, he embar-
ked on foot on the obligatory journey to foreign
lands and printing workshops to help improve
his skills. At the time, such a journey was the
he and his mother moved to Budapest where he
went to school and trained in the printing craft.
After the obligatory study journey he went to
Switzerland for two months and obtained work
in a printing shop with the primary reason that
he could climb the local mountains. When he
was 17, he served with the army for three-years
in Klagenfurt, then returned to Budapest in 1914
and married.
During World War One he was sent to the Ga-
normal way to acquire knowledge and skills licia front where he was injured and recuperated
of nature and mountains, and is particularly zo front and then worked the last year of the war
for craftsmen. Pogačnik was a great enthusiast
overwhelmed by the beauties and peculiarities
of the lands that he walked through but in his
diary he doesn't mention any printing work-
shops he visited, as one might expect. In the
period between 25th June and 6th September
1908 he walked the distance of impressive 1200
kilometers, from Budapest to Bergenz in Au-
stria. The diary is written in Hungarian bacause
he lived and studied in Budapest.
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He was born in Ljubljana. When he was six,
for one year in Ptuj. He was later sent to the Ison-
in Vienna in the National Printing Workshop. In
1918 he returned to Budapest to his family. Life af-
ter the war in Budapest was very difficult and so
he returned to Ljubljana in 1923, worked in diffe-
rent printing workshops and in 1925 became the
manager of the Sava Printing Workshop in Kranj.
In 1927 he founded his own printing workshop.
He died in 1934. The business was passed down
to his eldest son Albin.