Janez Trdina (29 May 1830 – 14 July 1905) was a
Slovene writer and historian. The renowned author
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 Slov ...
described him as the best Slovene stylist of his period. He was an ardent describer of the
Gorjanci Ridge and of the
Lower Carniola
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n region of Slovenia.
Trdina Peak ( sl, Trdinov vrh, hr, Sveta Gera), the highest peak of Gorjanci Ridge, situated on the border between southeastern
Slovenia
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and
Croatia
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, was named for him in 1923.
Biography
Trdina was born in
Mengeš in the northern
Carniola, then part of the
Austrian Empire
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He attended school in
Ljubljana
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During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...
and studied history, geography, and
Slavic philology in Vienna. He worked as a teacher in Croatia, in
Varaždin
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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
Novo Mesto
Novo Mesto (; sl, Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered ...
, 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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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