Despite his efforts, a philologist and the first Slovene doctor of Indian studies, Dr
Karel Glaser (1845-1913), who worked as a grammar school teacher in Trieste in the
period 1880-1901, could not have asserted himself in the Slovene middle class of
Trieste. One of the reasons was also a strong local patriotism of the Slovenes of
Trieste, who saw Glaser, originating from Hoče near Maribor, only as a newcomer.