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List Of People From Ljubljana
This is a list of notable individuals who were born or lived in Ljubljana: Authors * Anton Aškerc (1856–1912), poet *Vladimir Bartol (1903–1967), author *Adam Bohorič (1520–1598), Protestant preacher, author and philologist * Peter Božič (1932–2009), writer, playwright, journalist, and politician *Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), writer, playwright, and essayist * Peter Čeferin (born 1938), attorney, writer, playwright * Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), poet, essayist and sociologist *Anton Funtek (1862–1932), writer, poet, editor and translator * Alojz Gradnik (1882–1967), poet *Drago Jančar (born 1948), writer and essayist * Jože Javoršek (1920–1990), author, essayist, playwright and translator *Taras Kermauner, literary historian and essayist * Mile Klopčič (1905–1984), poet and translator *Edvard Kocbek (1904–1981), poet, essayist, writer and politician *Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926), poet *Ferdo Kozak (1894–1957), writer, playwright, and politician *Juš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, one of the Slovene-inhabited parts of the Habsburg monarchy. It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. After World War II, Ljubljana became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The city retained this status until Slovenia became independent in 1991 and Ljubljana became the capital of the newly formed state. Name The origin of the name ''Ljubljana'' is unclear. In the Middle Ages, both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdo Kozak
Ferdo Kozak (28 October 1894 – 8 December 1957) was a Slovenian author, playwright, editor and politician. He was born as Ferdinand Kozak in an upper middle class family in Ljubljana, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His older brother Juš Kozak also became an author and literary critic, while his younger brother Vlado Kozak became a Communist politician. In 1913, Kozak joined the radical Yugoslavist subversive youth organization '' Preporod'', which was engaged in anti-Austrian and pro-Yugoslav activities, in connection with other organizations of Austro-Hungarian South Slavs, such as Young Bosnia. During World War I, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Eastern Front. After the War, he studied Slavic philology in Prague, where he became friends with many Slovenes living in the Czechoslovak capital, such as the painter Božidar Jakac, philosopher Anton Trstenjak and sociologist Mihajlo Rostohar. In 1926, he moved to Belgrade, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomaž Šalamun
Tomaž Šalamun (July 4, 1941 – December 27, 2014) was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central EuropeColm Tóibín (2004The comet's trail Guardian and an internationally acclaimed absurdist. Martín López-Vega (201La poesía total de Tomaz Salamun El Cultural His books of Slovene poetry have been translated into twenty-one languages, with nine of his thirty-nine books of poetry published in English. His work has been called a poetic bridge between old European roots and America.Tomaz Salamun - Poet,philosopher, 'monster' The Hour, 13 May 2001 Šalamun was a member of the |
Samo Resnik
Samo Resnik (1962 in Maribor – 9 April 2011 in Ljubljana) was a Slovenian Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes The Slovenes, also known as Slovenians ( sl, Sloven ... journalist, essayist, political activist, writer and poet. Samo Resnik was known for his political and literary essays, as well as writing and editing science-fiction stories. During his study of biology at the beginning of the 1980., Resnik became the editor of Slovenian student magazine ''Katedra''. He later became the editor of another student newspaper, ''Tribuna'', which was issued by Slovenian student organization. He was also the editor of ''Časopis za kritiko znanosti (Journal for the Criticism of Science)''. He has written several books, including the 2003 novel called ''Dotiki'', the 2005 collection of poems ''Prijaznemu dvomu'' and in 2009 a boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alenka Puhar
Alenka Puhar (born 4 February 1945) is a Slovenian journalist, author, translator, and historian. In 1982, she wrote a groundbreaking psychohistory-inspired book ''"The Primal Text of Life"'' (in Slovene: ''Prvotno besedilo življenja'') about the 19th century social history of early childhood in Slovene Lands, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The book was in 2010 the subject of a television documentary that was in 2010 televised on the national RTV Slovenija.Kač, Maja (2010A View On Infancy Without A Sugar Coating(in Slovene: ''"Nepocukran" pogled na otroštvo''), MMC RTV Slovenija, 20 April.Tomažič, Agata (2010Izvrstna (časopisna) intervjuja a documentary criticism, Pogledi, 5 May 2010, Ljubljana. Her grandfather was the photographer and inventor Janez Puhar, who invented a process for photography on glass. Life Alenka Puhar was born in Črnomelj to father France Mihelič, Slovene modernist painter, and mother Helena Puhar, a renowned pedagogue (an elementary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Prešeren
France Prešeren () (2 or 3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.Database of translations – Prešeren , Slovene Book Agency, 2013 He has been considered the greatest Slovene classical poet and has inspired later . He wrote the first Slovene and the first Slovene epic. After his death, he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Pohlin
Marko Pohlin born Anton Pohlin (13 April 1735 – 4 February 1801), was a Slovene philologist and author. He is generally considered the first exponent of the Age of Enlightenment in the Slovene Lands. He was baptized Antonius Puhlin in Ljubljana, in what was then the Duchy of Carniola in the Habsburg monarchy, born the son of a tavern owner. He studied in Jesuit colleges in Novo Mesto and Ljubljana, and joined the Augustinian order. He is best known for his book ''Kraynska grammatika'' ( Carniolan Grammar), a grammar of Slovene written in German. In it, Pohlin attempted to modernize Adam Bohorič's sixteenth-century grammar. The work is especially important for its preface, in which Pohlin praised Slovene and rejected those that regarded it as rough and unworthy of being used in literature. Pohlin also composed a Slovene–German–Latin dictionary entitled ''Tu malu besedishe treh jesikov'' (Small Trilingual Dictionary) or ''Dictionarium slavicum carniolicum'' (Slavic-Carni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iztok Osojnik
Iztok Osojnik (born 27 July 1951) is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association. Osojnik was born in Ljubljana in 1951. He studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of the literary historian and philosopher Dušan Pirjevec. In his college years he collaborated with the poet Jure Detela and sociologist Iztok Saksida in publishing their ''Podrealistični manifest'' (The Sub-Realist Manifesto) in 1979 and later participated in the avantgarde group ''Pisarna Aleph'' (Aleph Office). Between 1980 and 1982 he continued his graduate studies at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. In 2000 he was a fellow of the Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary English Writers and in 2001 a fellow of the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Between 2002 and 2003 he visited the US on a Fulbright Fellowship. He has published several collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Novy
Lili Novy née Haumeder (24 December 1885 – 7 March 1958) was a Slovene poet and translator of poetry. She is considered the first Slovene female lyric poet as well as one of the most important Slovene female poets in general. Biography She was born in Graz as Lili Haumeder to an ethnic German father named Guid Haumeder and a Slovene mother Ludvika Ahačič. She was educated privately and began writing poetry in German. In her mid twenties she began to include herself in the Slovene literary scene and began translating Prešeren's German poems into Slovene and vice versa and also began publishing in literary magazines. She also translated a lot of Goethe into Slovene. Gradually, under the influence of Alojz Gradnik, she began writing her own poetry in Slovene. During her lifetime only one collection of her own poems was published: ''Temna vrata'' (Dark Door) (1941). After spending an entire life on the move with a husband in the military, Lili Novy eventually settled in Lju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Murn
Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov (4 March 1879 – 18 June 1901) was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one of the beginners of modernism in Slovene literature. After France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek, Murn was probably the most influential Slovene poet of the last two centuries. Life Murn was born in a condominium in the very center of Ljubljana as an illegitimate son to a poor woman. His mother moved to Trieste soon after his birth, leaving him in foster care to some relatives from the suburbs of Ljubljana. As a teenager, he enrolled in the local high school, where he came in contact with other young Slovene literates, such as Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette, and Oton Župančič, who experimented in new trends of European poetry, in particular Slovene ''Moderna'', a national literary trend that combined Naturalism, Impressionism, Decadence and Symbolist ideas. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janez Menart
Janez Menart () (29 September 1929 – 22 January 2004) was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimism (Slovene poetry), Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French poetry, French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene language, Slovene, including Shakespeare's sonnets. Biography Menart was born in Maribor. His mother was a theatre actress. She soon fell ill, so the family moved back to Ljubljana. His father worked as an emergency medical technician and committed suicide when Janez was seven years old. His mother died eight years later. Due to poor social circumstances Janez and his older sister lived almost from the beginning of schooling in the boarding schools. Janez was able to enter grammar school only because he won one of the four scholarships offered by Drava Banovina in 1940. Having finished it he attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana where he graduated in Slovene philology and in comparative literatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Tomaž Linhart
Anton Tomaž Linhart (December 11, 1756 – July 14, 1795) was a Carniolan playwright and historian, best known as the author of the first comedy and theatrical play in general in Slovene, ''Županova Micka'' (Micka, the Mayor's Daughter). He is also considered the father of Slovene historiography, since he was the first historian to write a history of all Slovenes as a unit, rejecting the previous concept which focused on single historical provinces. He was the first one to define the Slovenes as a separate ethnic group and set the foundations of Slovene ethnography. Biography Linhart was born in the Upper Carniolan town of Radovljica, at the time part of the Habsburg monarchy, and baptized ''Thomas Antonius Leanhorht''. His father Wenceslaus was a Czech hosiery manufacturer who had moved to Carniola from Bohemia. Linhart's mother, Theresia née Kunstl, died when he was nine years old, and his father then married Agnes Kappus on June 8, 1767. His stepmother was a Carniolan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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