Janez Trdina (29 May 1830 – 14 July 1905) was a Slovene writer and historian. The renowned author

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described him as the best Slovene stylist of his period. He was an ardent describer of the Gorjanci Ridge and of the

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and

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, was named for him in 1923.

Biography

Trdina was born in Mengeš in the northern Carniola, then part of the

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. He attended school in

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and studied history, geography, and Slavic philology in Vienna. He worked as a teacher in Croatia, in

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and in Rijeka. In 1867, he was retired on charges of misleading students with his radical liberal political views. He moved to Bršljin near

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, and later to the town itself.

Work

Trdina travelled widely across the Lower Carniola, compiling notes on the life and customs of local people. His notebooks were filled with folk sayings, folk tales, anecdotes, and customs. Trdina edited them in an emphasized realistic, even naturalistic manner, rejecting the Romantic vision of an idyllic countryside. In 1882, he published these notes in a volume titled ''Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih'' ('' Tales and Stories of the Gorjanci Hills'').Slovene Post Office site on the occasion of issuing a stamp of Trdina in 2005
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trdina, Janez 1830 births 1905 deaths People from Mengeš 19th-century Slovenian historians Slovenian ethnographers Slovenian poets Slovenian male poets University of Vienna alumni 19th-century poets