France Ostanek was born on February 6, 1902 in Ljubljana and died there on June 2, 1989. In the years 1925—1935 he was a teacher in Sodražica and in Vodice. Within national-defensive St. Cyrill and Methodius Society and Minority Institute in Ljubljana he later devoted himself to ethnic and scholastic-ethnic studies. As a director (1951— 1974) he developed the Slovenian School Museum into an important museal, documentational and research institution. F. Ostanek was the author or editor of numerous papers, catalogues, miscellanies and periodicals on the slovenian and yugoslav school-history.