Josip Stritar
| Josip Stritar | |
|---|---|
 Josip Stritar as depicted by Rudolf Jakhel (1920s) | |
| Born |
6 March 1836 Podsmreka, Austrian Empire (now Slovenia) |
| Died |
25 November 1923 Rogaška Slatina, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Slovenia) |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, playwright |
| Notable works | Zorin, Gospod Mirodolski, Rosana, Sodnikovi |
Josip Stritar (6 March 1836 – 25 November 1923) was a Slovene writer, poet, essayist, the first aesthetic critic, playwright, publisher and translator.[1]
Life
Stritar spent his early childhood in his home village of Podsmreka in rural Lower Carniola and was sent to school in Ljubljana. In 1855, he went to study in Vienna and completed his studies in 1874, after which he became an assistant teacher at the Hernals Gymnasium, and after 1878, professor in Josefstadt, where he remained until his retirement in 1901. Stritar returned to the Slovene Lands in January 1923, after he was in recognition of his work given a house in Rogaška Slatina by the regional government in Ljubljana. He lived there until his death and was buried in Ljubljana.[2]
Work
One of his important contributions was the introduction to the 1866 edition of France Prešeren's collected poems where he pointed out the importance of his poems to the nascent Slovene national identity.
Despite living most of his life in Vienna, he was much admired and appreciated at home even during his lifetime and was made an honorary member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1919.[3]
Commemoration
The main street leading from the Triple Bridge towards Town Square in Ljubljana has been named Stritarjeva ulica (Stritar Street) after Stritar. Stritar's birth house has been replaced with another building; from his period, only a granary has been preserved. It has been arranged into an ethnographic museum.
Bibliography
- Klasje – introduction to the issue of Prešeren's Collected Poems (1866)
- Svetinova Metka, ("Metka Svetina"; 1868)
- Pesmi ("Poems"; 1869)
- Pasji pogovori ("Dog's Conversations"; 1870)
- Zorin (1870)
- Dunajski soneti ("Sonnets of Vienna"; 1872)
- Prešernova pisma iz Elizije ("Prešeren's Letters from Elysium"; 1872)
- Gospod Mirodolski ("Mister of Mirodol"; 1876)
- Rosana (1877)
- Sódnikovi ("The Sodnik Family"; 1878)
Plays
- Orest ("Orestes"; 1866 or 1867)
- Medeja ("Medea"; 1870)
- Regulovo slovo ("The Farewell of Regul"; 1870)
- Najemnina ("The Rent"; 1876)
- Oderuh ("The Usurer"; 1876)
- Rejenka ("The Foster Daughter"; 1876)
- Zapravljivec ("The Spendthrift"; 1876)
- Zorko (1877)
- Klara (1880)
- Po velikem požaru; Slike iz življenja dunajskega ("After the Great Fire; Scenes from the Life in Vienna"; 1882)
- Nedolžen! ("Innocent!" 1883)
- Pravo junaštvo ("The True Heroism"; 1885)
- Logarjevi ("The Logar Family"; 1899)
Youth literature
- Pod lipo ("Under the Lime Tree"; 1895)
- Jagode ("The Strawberries"; 1899)
- Zimski večeri ("The Winter Evenings"; 1902)
- Lešniki ("The Hazelnuts"; 1906)
References
- ↑ "Velike Lašče Municipality site". Josip Stritar (in Slovenian). Velike Lašče Municipality. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
- ↑ Gašper Troha, Sebastijan Pregelj: Ljubljana Literary Trail, pgs. 25–26, Beletrina, 2011, ISBN 978-961-242-362-9
- ↑ Helga Glušič, Sto Slovenskih Pripovednikov (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1996) ISBN 961-6186-21-3
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Josip Stritar. |
- Works by or about Josip Stritar at Internet Archive
- Works by Josip Stritar at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
