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Anastasius Grün

Died in 1876

Anastasius Grün is the pen name of Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, born in Laibach, today Ljubljana, in 1806, heir to the estates of Thurn am Hart in Carniola. At the Klinkowström institute in Vienna, his teacher was the future Slovene poet France Prešeren. His verses against the Metternich regime, published anonymously in 1831, caused a sensation throughout Germany. A deputy in Frankfurt in 1848, he was appointed for life to the Austrian upper house in 1861. He translated Slovene folk songs, published Lenau's posthumous papers and died in Graz in 1876.

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