Ivan Pregelj

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Ivan Pregelj (born October 27, 1893 in Sveta Lucija (Most na Soči), Primorska , Austria-Hungary ; died January 30, 1960 in Ljubljana , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) was a Slovenian writer.

Life

Ivan Pregelj's father died early, and Pregelj was only able to go to middle school thanks to a scholarship from the Catholic Church. He began to study theology at the ecclesiastical seminary in Gorizia , but then went to Vienna and studied German and Slavic and received his doctorate with a dissertation on Rogerij Ljubljanski (Mihael Krammar) (1667–1728). Pregelj worked as a high school teacher at schools in Gorizia, Pazin , Idrija , Kranj and from 1924 in Ljubljana .

His literary works revolve around the inhabitants and the history of the Tolmin region , including the Tolmin peasant uprising in 1713. In literary form, he took on stylistic elements of Expressionism , in terms of content he was committed to Catholicism . He wrote poems, short stories and dramas. He translated into Slovenian and wrote literary reviews. He wrote the libretto for the opera Tajda for Hugolin Sattner and the biographical story Simon iz Praš about Simon Jenko . In the mid-1930s, its literary production ebbed.

His son was the painter Marij Pregelj (1913–1967), who was one of the most important Slovenian artists in the mid-20th century.

Works (selection)

  • Romance . 1910, poetry
  • Mlada Breda . 1913, story
  • Tolminci . 1927, story, first in Dom in svet , 1915–1916
  • Štefan Golja in njegovi . 1928, short story, first in Dom in svet , 1918–1919
  • Plebanus Joannes . 1920, narration
  • Matkova Tina . 1921, story
  • Azazel . 1921, drama
  • Thabiti Kumi . 1933 story
    • Plebanus Ioannes: Roman. Thabiti kumi: novella . Translation Johann Strutz. Epilogue Matjaž Kmecl. Klagenfurt: Drava, Mohorjeva / Hermagoras, Wieser 2013 ( Slovenian Library ) ISBN 978-3-85435-705-6

literature

  • Tone Smolej: To try and become something bigger: Slovenian writers as Viennese students (1850-1926) . Göttingen: V & R unipress, 2014, p. 189

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rogerij Ljubljanski in DNB
  2. ^ Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj, Carole Rogel: The A to Z to Slovenia . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, ISBN 0810872161 , S: 28.


personal data
SURNAME Pregelj, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Sveta Lucija (Most na Soči), Primorska , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1960
Place of death Ljubljana , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia