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Žale
Žale Central Cemetery (), often simply Žale, is the largest and the central cemetery in Ljubljana and Slovenia. It is located in the Bežigrad District and operated by the Žale Public Company. History The cemetery was built in 1906 behind Holy Cross Church. The first burial was performed in the same year on May 3, when the priest Martin Malenšek was transferred there from the old Navje cemetery. During World War I, many of the fallen soldiers of all sides were buried in Žale. However, they were all Roman Catholics, while Protestants, Jews and Muslims were buried in Navje. In 1923 the authorities allowed Jews and Muslims to be buried in Žale too, but only on the exterior side of the cemetery wall. In 1931 the new part of the cemetery (B part) opened. The Italian military cemetery was arranged there and many Italian soldiers were reburied from the A part. At the same year the Jewish part of the cemetery was arranged too, however it was separated from the main part by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Ravnikar
Edvard Ravnikar (4 December 1907 – 23 August 1993) was a Slovenian architect. Ravnikar was born in Novo Mesto and was a student of architect Jože Plečnik. Later, he led the new generation of Slovene architects, notable for developing the Slovene architecture field's infrastructure, organizing architectural competitions etc. He was a professor at the Ljubljana School of Architecture. He also promoted Scandinavian architectural style in Slovenia, particularly Finnish achievements in architecture accomplished by those such as Alvar Aalto. His most notable creations feature prominently in Ljubljana, among them Republic Square, Cankar Hall, Maximarket department store, and the Museum of Modern Art. For his work, he received the Prešeren Award in 1961 and in 1978. He died in Ljubljana, aged 85. Complete list of projects Built ;Memorials and memorial grounds *Ossuary for the Fallen during World War I, Žale Cemetery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1937 *Battelino Family Tomb, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jože Plečnik
Jože Plečnik () (23 January 1872 – 7 January 1957) was a Slovenian architect who had a major impact on the modern architecture of Vienna, Prague and of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, most notably by designing the iconic Triple Bridge and the Slovenian National and University Library building, as well as the embankments along the Ljubljanica River, the Ljubljana Central Market buildings, the Ljubljana cemetery, parks, plazas. His architectural imprint on Ljubljana has been compared to the impact Antoni Gaudí had on Barcelona. His style is associated with the Vienna Secession style of architecture (a type of Art Nouveau), but he also has influences from the baroque tradition in Slovenia, as well as Byzantine and early eighteenth century Viennese architecture. Plečnik was one of the few notable modernists who did not entirely reject historic forms and ideas, instead paying what he believed to be a debt to history in his designs. Besides in Ljubljana, he worked in V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Works Of Jože Plečnik In Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design
The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ljubljana, Slovenia, listed in 2021. The site encompasses some of the most prominent works of Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana. During the interwar period, Plečnik worked to transform Ljubljana from a provincial city to the capital of the Slovenian nation by creating a series of public spaces and public institutions and integrating them into the pre-existing urban fabric. Sites include the Church of St. Michael, Črna Vas, St. Michael's Church in Črna Vas, and the following sites in Ljubljana: the promenade along the embankments of the Ljubljanica River and the bridges crossing it, the "Green promenade": Vegova Street with the National and University Library of Slovenia, National and University Library from French Revolution Square to Congress Square and Star Park, Trnovo Bridge, Roman Walls in Mirje, the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, and the All Saints G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rihard Jakopič
Rihard Jakopič (12 April 1869 – 21 April 1943) was a Slovenes, Slovene painter. He was the leading Slovenes, Slovene Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician. Together with Matej Sternen, Matija Jama and Ivan Grohar, he is considered the pioneer of Slovene Impressionist painting. Life Rihard Jakopič was born in Krakovo, a suburb of Ljubljana, the capital of Carniola in the Austria-Hungary, now Slovenia. His father, Franc Jakopič, was a well-situated tradesman with agricultural goods. His mother was Neža, née Dolžan. Rihard was the youngest of eight children. Jakopič studied at the realschule, intermediate secondary school from 1879 to 1887. After passing an entry exam, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, for a short time returned home due to an illness, and then resumed his studies in 1888. In 1889, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and in 1890, the Anton Ažbe, Ažbe Art Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fran Saleški Finžgar
Fran Saleški Finžgar (February 9, 1871 – June 2, 1962) was perhaps the most popular Slovenes, Slovene folk writer. He is particularly known for his novels and short stories, although he also wrote poems and plays. Life Fran Saleški Finžgar was born into a poor peasant family in the Upper Carniolan village of Doslovče, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his baptismal name was recorded as ''France Finžgar''. His full name ''Fran Saleški'' refers to the saint he was named after, Francis de Sales. After finishing primary education in the town of Radovljica, he attended secondary school in Ljubljana between 1882 and 1891, continuing his education at the theological college. He was ordained priest in 1894 and worked in various parishes in Upper Carniola and Ljubljana until 1936, when he retired. He died in Ljubljana at the age of 91 and was buried at the Žale cemetery. Politically, Finžgar was close to the Christian Socialist ideals of the Slovenian Catholic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar (, ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce. Biography Ivan Cankar was born in the Carniolan town of Vrhnika near Ljubljana. He was one of the many children of a poor artisan who immigrated to Bosnia shortly after Ivan's birth. He was raised by his mother, Neža Cankar née Pivk, with whom he established a close, but ambivalent relationship. The figure of a self-sacrificing and submissively repressive mother would later become one of the most recognizable features of Cankar's prose. After finishing grammar school in his hometown, he studied at the Technical High School (''Realka'') in Ljubljana (1888–1896). During this period, he started writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Boh
Katja Boh (1929–2008) was a Slovenian sociologist, diplomat and politician. Early life and career She was born in a wealthy middle class family in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now the capital of Slovenia). Her father was an Austrian Jew who had converted to Roman Catholicism, her mother was Slovene. During World War II, she was imprisoned by the Nazis. In 1946 she got engaged to Ljubo Sirc who later became an economist.Ljubo Sirc, Med Titom in Hitlerjem (Ljubljana: DZS, 1992) The same year, however, Sirc was imprisoned by the Communist regime and trialed at the so-called Nagode trial. Due to Sirc's long confinement and later exile, their engagement failed. She had 2 stepchildren (Maja and Ali Boh) and a daughter Katja Boh - Cerjak from her marriage to Dr. Boh. She studied sociology at the University of Ljubljana and obtained her PhD in 1974. She dedicated herself to the study of family patterns, becoming one of the leading European experts in the field. Involvement in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Bartol
Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel ''Alamut'', the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages. Life Bartol was born on 24 February 1903 in San Giovanni (), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste () (now in Italy), in a middle class Slovene minority family. His father Gregor Bartol was a post office clerk, and his mother Marica Bartol Nadlišek was a teacher, a renowned editor and feminist author. He was the third child of seven and his parents offered him extensive education. His mother introduced him to painting, while his father shared with him his interest in biology. Bartol began to be interested in philosophy, psychology, and biology, but also art, theatre, and literature, as described in his autobiographical short stories. Bartol began his elementary and secondary schooling in Trieste and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fran Albreht
Fran Albreht (17 November 1889 – 11 February 1963) was a Slovenian poet, editor, politician and partisan. He also published under the pseudonym Rusmir. He was born as Franc Albrecht in the Upper Carniolan town of Kamnik in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew up in a liberal milieu, but he later came closer to more leftist views. He studied at the University of Vienna and became a literary critic and a neo-romantic poet. From the 1922 till the 1932 Albreht was editor of the liberal literary magazine ''Ljubljanski zvon''. After the crisis of the journal in 1932, which emerged from different interpretations of Slovene identity and attitudes towards the centralist policies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Albreht left the journal and established, together with the literary critic Josip Vidmar and author Ferdo Kozak, a new magazine called '' Sodobnost'' ("Modernity"). Under Albreht, Vidmar and Kozak, the new magazine became the foremost progressive journal in Slovenia, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Mušič
Marko Marijan Mušič (born 30 January 1941) is a Slovenian architect. He has designed buildings in cities such as Zagreb, Skopje and Ljubljana. Education Mušič studied architecture in Slovenia, the US and Denmark. Memberships From May 2008 to December 2013 he has been a vice-president of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU). He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Works * Hall of the Seven Secretaries of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ), Zagreb (1966) * University Center, Skopje (1975–1978) * Memorial Hall, Bosanski Šamac (1975–1978) * Ljubljana railway station (1980) * Incarnation Church, Dravlje, Ljubljana (1980–1985) * New Žale Cemetery (1982–1988) * Saint Francis's Church, Kotor Varoš (1986–1991) * Domus Slovenica, Vienna Vienna ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davorin Jenko
Davorin Jenko (born Martin Jenko; 9 November 1835 – 25 November 1914) was a Slovenes, Slovene and Serbs, Serbian composer. He is sometimes considered the father of Slovenian National romanticism, national Romantic music. Among other songs, he composed the melody for the Serbian national anthem "Bože pravde" ("God of Justice"), the former Slovenian national anthem "Naprej, zastava Slave" ("Forward, Flag of Glory!"), and the popular Serbian and Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegrin song "Onamo, 'namo!, Serbian Marseillaise". Biography Jenko was born in the Upper Carniolan village of Dvorje, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Dvorje, in what was then the Austrian Empire, and baptized ''Martinus Jenko''. After graduating from high school in Trieste, he went to Vienna, where he studied law. During his Viennese stay, he founded the Slovene Choir Society in Vienna, which was sponsored by the national liberal politician Valentin Zarnik. In 1862, he moved to the town of Pančevo in southern Vojvodina, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bežigrad District
The Bežigrad District (), or simply Bežigrad (), is a district () of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. Spanning an area of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi), it encompasses the northern part of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ..., between the southern rail line to the south, the Upper Carniola (or Kamnik) rail line to the west, the highway loop to the north, and Šmartno Street () and Žale Cemetery to the east. It extends on both sides of Vienna Street (), which is its central axis and main traffic artery. In the narrow sense, it includes the neighborhoods of Bežigrad, Brinje, Nove Stožice ('New Stožice', also known as BS3), and '' Sava Development'' (). In a broader sense, Bežigrad is sometimes considered to include the northern L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
