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Fran Levstik

Died in 1887

Fran Levstik was born on 28 September 1831 in Dolnje Retje, near Velike Lašče, into a peasant family. Dismissed from the Olomouc seminary in 1855 over a collection of poems judged licentious, which he refused to disown, he was a tutor, then principal contributor to a political newspaper and first secretary of the Slovenska matica, before becoming a librarian in Ljubljana in 1872. A figure of the Young Slovenes, he asked writers to base the literary language on that of the people. He died in Ljubljana on 16 November 1887, of a kidney disease.

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