Dragotin Kette

Dragotin Kette was born on 19 January 1876 in Prem, the son of a schoolteacher and organist, and lost his mother as a child. At the Ljubljana grammar school he led a pupils' literary society; satirical verses aimed at the bishop cost him his uncle's support, and he took his baccalaureate at Novo mesto in 1898. Called up afterwards as a simple soldier in Trieste, he contracted tuberculosis there. Back in Ljubljana, he died on 26 April 1899, aged twenty-three, cared for by his friend Josip Murn.

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• PoetryPoezijeDragotin Kette · 1900not translated into EnglishLiterature