Wolfgang Hafner

Vinzenz Bronzin — Personal Life and Work

Vinzenz (later: Vincenzo) Bronzin was born in Rovigno (today: Rovinj), a small town on the peninsula of Istria (Croatia), on 4th May 1872, and died in Trieste on the 20th December 1970 at age 98. He was the son of a commandant of a sailing-ship. After completing the gymnasium (high school) in Capodistria, a town on Istria, he became a student in engineering at the University of Polytechnics in Vienna, where he made his exams after an enrolment of two years. He then studied mathematics and paedagogics at the University of Vienna, and at the same time, he took courses for military officers in Graz.