Janez Trdina

Janez Trdina

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name = Janez Trdina


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birthdate = birth date|1830|5|29
birthplace = Mengeš, Austrian Empire nowrap|(now Slovenia)
deathdate = death date|1905|7|14
deathplace = Novo Mesto, Austria-Hungary nowrap|(now Slovenia)
occupation = Writer
nationality = Slovene
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Janez Trdina (29 May 1830 - 17 June 1905) was a Slovene writer and historian. Ivan Cankar described him as the best Slovene stylist of his period. [cite web |url=http://www.novomesto.si/si/novomesto/obcina/osebnosti/trdina/ |title=Janez Trdina |publisher=City Municipality of Novo Mesto |accessdate=2008-09-19] He was an ardent describer of the Gorjanci region and of Lower Carniola in general. Since 1923, Trdinov vrh ( _hr. Sveta Gera), the highest peak in the Gorjanci range, has been named after him.

Biography

Trdina was born in Mengeš in Upper Carniola, then part of the Austrian Empire. He attended school in Ljubljana and studied history, geography and Slavic philology in Vienna. He worked as a teacher in Varaždin and in Rijeka, but was retired after being accused of misleading students with his liberal political views in 1867. He moved to Bršljin near Novo Mesto and later to Novo Mesto itself. [Helga Glušič, "Sto Slovenskih Pripovednikov" (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1996) ISBN 961-6186-21-3]

Work

Trdina travelled widely across the Lower Carniola region observing the life and customs of local people and making notes. His notebooks were filled with folk sayings, folk tales, anecdotes and customs. In 1882, he published them in a book titled "Tales and Stories of the Gorjanci Hills" ("Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih"). [ [http://www.posta.si/Namizje.aspx?tabid=618&artikelid=8204 Slovene Post Office site on the occasion of issuing a stamp of Trdina in 2005] ]

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