Author · Slovenia
Fran Erjavec
Died in 1887
Fran Erjavec was born on 4 September 1834 in Ljubljana, in the Poljane district, and lost his father at about the age of four. After the secondary school in Ljubljana, he studied chemistry and the natural sciences in Vienna, taught for eleven years in Zagreb, from 1860 to 1871, then in Gorizia until his death; appointed professor of zoology at the University of Zagreb in 1875, he gave up the post for family reasons. In 1872 he married Marija Ferfila. A naturalist as much as a storyteller, he collected in Gorizia the words and place names in popular use in the region. He died in Gorizia on 12 January 1887.
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- EssayMravljaFran Erjavec · 1857not translated into EnglishLiterature