Jože Žontar (born on March 15th, 1932, in Kranj) graduated from history at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He took up his first duties in the Archives of Slovenia. In 1972 he was named the head of the Municipal Archives Ljubljana which he chaired till 1992. He took the doctor's degee in 1977 with the dissertation The Administration and Judicature Structure in Slovenia from the Middle of the 18th Century till 1848. As a senior university teacher he began to lecturc Archive Science at the Faculty of Arts in 1979. In 1985 he was elected associate professor and in 1990 full professor.
The jubilee record is followed by the bibliography of his published works.