Vlado Valenčič Ph. D. was born on the 26th of Nov. 1903 in Trnovo by Ilirska Bistrica. He studied on the Universities in Frankfurt, Vienna and Zürich, where he got his doctor's degree in economics in 1926. Until 1950 he vvas employed in various enterprises, afterwards he worked in Municipal archives of Ljubljana till his retirement in 1973. Main field of his research vvas urban history. His last book deals with Jews in Ljubljana.