Irfan Škiljan

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Irfan Škiljan in the 1990s

Irfan Škiljan (* 1973 in Jajce , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) is an Austrian software developer of Bosnian descent. Irfan Škiljan is the developer of the freeware program IrfanView , named after his first name , which he published as a preliminary version in 1995 and is still being developed today.

Life

Škiljan was born in Jajce in 1973 , attended school there and later attended the military school in Zagreb for a year . When the Bosnian War began in 1992 , the military school was relocated to Belgrade and, like all Croatian and Bosniak students, he had to leave school shortly afterwards, shortly before graduation . Škiljan was taken to a refugee camp in Wöllersdorf ( Lower Austria ) near Vienna . Locals offered German courses, and that's where he began to learn the German language. He later lived with a host family with whom he is still in contact today. He later studied computer science at the Technical University of Vienna . He was only able to re-establish contact with his family in the mid-1990s, as he was separated from them for five years during the war.

During his student days he lived with a family who worked to ensure that he could stay in Austria as a student. During his studies he started working on IrfanView in the mid-1990s. He now has Austrian citizenship . In 2000 Irfan Škiljan completed his computer science degree . Despite many offers from companies, Škiljan continued to develop his software as an independent entrepreneur. His income comes from voluntary contributions from users of the program, license fees from companies and the fees for individual adjustments for corporate customers, such as Audi, Mercedes, EADS, T-Mobile, A1 and ORF, as well as pharmaceutical companies, several banks, the German one Bundestag and the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

History of development at IrfanView

As a student, he began developing his program in 1995. The reason for this was his need for a suitable image viewer for the PC that did not yet exist at the time. At first, IrfanView was just a simple JPEG image viewer, which he originally developed for himself and friends, from whom he received many suggestions and ideas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ textbox.at: The Lord of Images
  2. ↑ New version of IrfanView: Free image viewer on krone.at from April 30, 2007
  3. ↑ a b Stefan Meisterle: With the computer program IrfanView, a micro-entrepreneur is successfully asserting itself on the world market: In the ring with the IT giants in: Wiener Zeitung from January 12, 2012
  4. ↑ Irfan Škiljan. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved January 1, 2010 (Bosnian).
  5. ↑ sagmal.de: Interview with Irfan Škiljan from October 28, 2000 ( Memento from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The Lord of Pictures | Agency text box. In: Writing is gold. May 27, 2008, accessed on May 16, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ wolf-hosbach.de:/ Was it worth it? Interview with Irfan Škiljan , published in issue 5/2006 of PC Magazin
personal data
SURNAME Škiljan, Irfan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian software developer of Bosnian descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Jajce , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia