Slavko Wolf

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Slavko Wolf

Slavko Wolf (born Samuel Wolf; 26 December 1862 – 7 November 1936) was a Croatian lawyer, chess player and writer. He was born in Tata, in the Kingdom of Hungary, to Jewish parents Benjamin and Matilda Wolf. The family moved to Vukovar, Croatia, where Slavko grew up with his brothers Dragutin and Leopold. His father worked as a cantor and later as a rabbi.

Wolf studied law at the University of Vienna, finishing in 1883, where he also earned a doctorate. He worked as a trainee solicitor in Bjelovar, then practiced law in Koprivnica and served in the Koprivnica City Assembly. He owned a law firm. In 1893 he married Janka Granitz, and they had a son, Pavao Vuk-Pavlović, born in 1894. After the deaths of his parents, Slavko and his wife converted to Catholicism in 1900, though he remained connected to Judaism and the Jewish community.

In 1910 the family moved to Zagreb, where Wolf practiced law until 1931. He also played a role in publishing, becoming lifetime president of the Graphic and Publishing Bureau Tipografija d.d. Chess was one of his hobbies, and in 1935 he published a book of chess problems for beginners, Šahovski problemi za početnike.

Slavko Wolf died on 7 November 1936 in Zagreb and was buried at Mirogoj Cemetery. His wife survived the Holocaust with help from her sons’ former students.

Selected works: Šahovski problemi za početnike (1935).