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Front: Primoz Trubar (1508-1586), Slovene Protestant reformer

Trubar was born in Rasica, Slovenia. He attended University of Vienna in 1528, but did not graduate. In 1530 he returned to Slovenia and became a preacher. He was the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of Slovenia, a consolidator of the Slovene language and the author of the first printed book in Slovene.

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Front: Janez Vajkard Valvazor (1641-1693), Slovene scholar

Valvasor was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He attended the Jesuit school in Ljubljana. Graduated in 1658 at the age of 17. He chose not to continue his education in at a university but to broaden his horizons by meeting learned men on a journey across Europe. This journey lasted fourteen years and it even took him to northern Africa.

He got married in 1672, and bought a castle near Litija, where he arranged for writing, drawing and printing workshop. Valvasor spent a fortune on writing and publishing books. His extensive treatise on the hydrology of the intermittent Lake Cerknica won him the membership of the Royal Society in London in 1688. However, His single most important work remains The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, published in 1689.

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Front: Rihard Jakopic (1869-1943), impressionist painter

Jakopic studied at the Vienna Academy, the Azbe Art School in Munich, and the Hynais Art Academy in Prague. In Ljubljana, he established the Slovenian School of Impressionist Drawing and Painting, the predecessor of the Academy of Art, and built a pavilion in Tivoli Park that became the central venue for art exhibitions in Slovenia.

Back: Outline of Jakopicev Pavilion

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Front: Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591), composer

Gallus was educated in various monasteries in Central Europe and began his music career in Vienna. He was a recognized and very respected composer in his time.

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