Bojan Štih

Bojan Štih (18 February 1923[1] – 14 October 1986), was a Slovene literary critic, stage director, and essayist.

During World War II, he collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

In late August 1942 he escaped from the camp along with a group of Slovene Communist activists, among whom was also the Partisan leader Franc Ravbar and Boris Kraigher, who later who became prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.

Štih Hall (Štihova dvorana) in Cankar Hall, the largest cultural and congress centre in Slovenia, was named after him, as was Štih Street (Štihova ulica) in the Bežigrad district of Ljubljana.

He was the uncle of Barbara Brezigar, Slovene jurist and politician and current Chief Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Slovenia.