Marija Kessler

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Marija Kessler ( April 24, 1860 - May 1, 1939 ) was a salonnière .

The daughter of Count Ferdinand Trenz and her husband Rudolph Kessler founded the Slovenian literary scene in Ljubljana at the end of the 19th century , in which Oton Župančič , Ivan Cankar and Fran Alb nearly worked. Your salon was the most important attempt at a Slovenian classical literary salon until the end of the Habsburg monarchy .

Her mother Matilda Trenz was the aunt of Anton Haus , who was married to Marija's older sister Anna Karoline Haus (* May 24, 1857 - May 6, 1924) (Netty).

Marija Kessler had three daughters: one daughter was the writer Vera Albendet , another, Ana Župančič , was married to the writer Oton Župančič since 1913. Mici Kessler-Čop was the lover of the Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar around 1917 .

Individual evidence

  1. Vladimir Klemenčič (ed.): Obdobje socialnega realizma v slovenskem jeziku, književnosti in kulturi. Ljubljana 1987, ISBN 86-7207-002-X , p. 128.