Josip Stritar was a Slovene writer

Writer

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, poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, playwright

Playwright

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, publisher and translator.

Stritar spent his early childhood in his home village in rural Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola

Lower Carniola was a kreis of the historical Habsburg crown land of Carniola from 1849 till 1919 and is nowadays a traditional region of Slovenia. Its center is Novo Mesto, while other urban centers include Kočevje, Grosuplje, Krško, Trebnje, Mirna, Črnomelj, Semič, and Metlika.-See also:* Upper...

 and was sent to school in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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. In 1855 he went to study in Vienna

Vienna

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 and completed his studies in 1874 after which he became an assistant teacher at Hernals

Hernals

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 Gymnasium

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 and after 1878 professor in Josefstadt

Josefstadt

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 where he remained until his retirement in 1901. He returned to Slovenia after he was given a house in Rogaška Slatina

Rogaška Slatina

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 by the regional government in Ljubljana in recognition of his work. He lived there until his death in 1923 and is buried in Ljubljana. One of his important contributions was the introduction to the 1866 edition of France Prešeren

France Prešeren

France Prešeren was a Slovene Romantic poet. He is considered the Slovene national poet. Although he was not a particularly prolific author, he inspired virtually all Slovene literature thereafter....

's collected poems where he pointed out the importance of his poems to nascent Slovene national identity. Despite living most of his life in Vienna he was much admired and appreciated at home even during his life time and was made an honorary member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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 in 1919.

The main road leading from the Triple Bridge towards Town Square

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is named after Stritar.

List of works

• Klasje - introduction to the issue of Prešern's Collected Poems (1866)
• Svetinova Metka, (1868)
• Pesmi, (1869)
• Pasji pogovori, (1870)
• Zorin, 1870
• Dunajski soneti, (1872)
• Prešernova pisma iz Elizije, (1872)
• Gospod Mirodolski, (1876)
• Rosana, 1877
• Sódnikovi, 1878

plays

• Orest, (1866 or 1867)
• Medeja, (1870)
• Regulovo slovo, (1870)
• Najemnina, (1876)
• Oderuh, (1876)
• Rejenka, (1876)
• Zapravljivec, (1876)
• Zorko, (1877)
• Klara, (1880)
• Po velikem požaru; Slike iz življenja dunajskega, (1882)
• Nedolžen!, (1883)
• Pravo junaštvo, (1885)
• Logarjevi, drama, (1899)

youth literature

• Pod lipo, (1895)
• Jagode, (1899)
• Zimski večeri, (1902)
• Lešniki, (1906)