Janez Primic

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Janez Nepomuk Primic (* 1785 in Zalog near Ljubljana ( Slovenia ); † 1823 ) was a Slovenian poet and educator. He was the owner of the world's first professorial chair for Slovene , which was established in Graz ( Austria ) at the Graz Lyceum in 1811 .

Primic attended high school in Ljubljana, where he was a student of the Slovenian enlightenment educator Valentin Vodnik , through whom he came into contact with enlightenment circles around Jernej Kopitar and Sigmund Zois . From 1807 Primic studied at the law faculty of the University of Graz . With some Slovenian fellow students he founded the Societas slovenica in 1810 , a society for the promotion of the Slovenian language, which had the goal of establishing a Slovenian chair . Primic, who was an enthusiastic Catholic, justified the necessity of the chair with the fact that the many Slovene-speaking inhabitants of Styria could be brought closer to the faith through the training of Slovene priests. The chair was established in 1811 and he began teaching in April 1812 with 60 students. However, Primic only taught three semesters before going mad in 1813. On October 12, 2001, a bilingual plaque was unveiled at the Old Graz University to commemorate this.

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SURNAME Primic, Janez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Primic, Janez Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian poet and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Zalog near Ljubljana
DATE OF DEATH 1823