France Prešeren

France Prešeren was born on 3 December 1800 in Vrba, the first son of a family of well-off peasants. He studied law in Vienna, graduating in 1828, then worked for a lawyer in Ljubljana; his applications to open his own practice failed until 1846, when he was able to settle in Kranj. His friend the philologist Matija Čop, who had guided him in literature, drowned in the Sava in 1835. He loved Julija Primic, the daughter of a rich merchant, without return. He died in Kranj on 8 February 1849, and one of his poems, written in 1844, has become the national anthem.

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• PoetryThe Baptism on the SavicaKrst pri SaviciFrance Prešeren · 1836Literature