Johann Ludwig Schönleben (November 16, 1618 – October 15, 1681; , ) was a Carniolan priest, rhetorician, and historian.

Life and work

Schönleben was born in Ljubljana, the son of the politician

Ludwig Schönleben Ludwig Schönleben (1590 – August 26, 1663; ) was a politician of the mid-17th century in what is now Slovenia, when the country was under the Holy Roman Empire. Schönleben was born in Heilbronn. He became mayor of Ljubljana in 1648, and was su ...

and his wife Susanna Kuschlan''Slovenska biografija'': Janez Ludvik Schönleben
/ref> and baptized ''Joan. Ludovicus Shönliebel''. The family originally stemmed from

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.Richter, Franz Xav. 1817. Ein Beytrag zum gelehrten Österreich aus Krain. ''Archiv für Geographie, Historie, Staats- und Kriegskunde'' 78 (30 June): 314–320. He attended the Jesuit college in Ljubljana and joined the order on October 15, 1635. Schönleben studied in Vienna, Graz, and Passau. He left the Jesuit order in 1653, received a doctorate in Padua, and then returned to Ljubljana. Schönleben was a well-known rhetorician and some of his speeches were also published. He was important in theology as a proponent of the

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. As a historian, he wrote a series of genealogies of Carniolan noble families. His most important work was ''Carniolia antiqua et nova'' (Carniola Old and New; Ljubljana, 1681). He was the teacher of

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor (, ) or simply Valvasor (baptised on 28 May 1641 – September or October 1693) was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a Li ...

.Palladino, Irmgard, & Maria Bidovec. 2008. ''Johann Weichard von Valvasor (1641–1693): Ein Protagonist der Wissenschaftsrevolution der Frühen Neuzeit. Leben, Werk und Nachlass.'' Vienna: Böhlau, p. 48. Schönleben died in Ljubljana and was buried in St. James's Church.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schonleben, Johann Ludwig 1618 births 1681 deaths Slovenian historians 17th-century historians 17th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests Clergy from Ljubljana 17th-century Carniolan writers