Anton Slodnjak (pronounced [anˈtoːn ˈsloːdnjak], June 13, 1899 – March 13, 1983) was a Slovene literary historian, critic, writer, Prešeren scholar, and academy member.

[2] Slodnjak was a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) from 1967, and a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy (JAZU) in Zagreb and an associate professor at the University of Zagreb until 1950, when he returned to Ljubljana and taught Slavic studies at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts as a full professor of Slovenian literature of the 19th century until his retirement in 1959.

Then, in 1947, he became a professor of Slovene literature at the Department of Slavic Studies in Zagreb,[1] and, after the death of France Kidrič in 1950, he assumed the position of full professor of Slovene literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, where he was dean of the faculty from 1951 to 1952, and then from 1953 to 1959 (after the retirement of Rajko Nahtigal) the head of the Institute for Slavic Philology.

In 1959, he was forcibly retired from these positions for ideological and political reasons, and he accepted the job of a visiting professor of Slovene, Croatian, and Serbian literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

The University of Zagreb awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1970, and the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts elected him a corresponding member in 1977.