Rudolf Badjura

Rudolf Badjura was the first Slovene ski instructor, a mountain hiking enthusiast, and a writer.
Badjura was born in Litija. After graduating from high school in Ljubljana, he enrolled at the Trade Academy in Prague. Badjura authored of the first Slovenian tourism and mountain guides, including Na Triglav, Vodić kroz jugoslovenske Alpe, Pohorje, Kozjakovo pogorje, Zasavje, Sto izletov po Dolenjskem, Gorenjskem in Notranjskem, Izleti po Karavankah, and Zimski vodnik po Sloveniji. He was a member of the Dren Society, a student club dedicated to mountain hiking. He wrote the first Slovenian skiing manual, Smučar, and Smučarsko terminologijo. Badjura was also a collector of place names; he compiled these in his work Ljudska geografija and wrote a series of articles on the topic. A continuation of this work was his Krajepisno gradivo, which remained in manuscript. As a member of the Geographical Society, he supervised the correction of nomenclature on topographic maps for Slovenia.