Josip Murn-Aleksandrov

Josip Murn was born on 4 March 1879 in Ljubljana, the illegitimate son of Marija Murn, who left to work in Trieste shortly after his birth; he grew up in several foster families. At the Ljubljana grammar school, from 1890 to 1898, he became close to Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Oton Župančič. A scholarship took him to Vienna, which he soon left; he then worked as a stenographer, and later as a clerk at the chamber of commerce. He lived with his foster mother in a former sugar refinery on the banks of the Ljubljanica, and died there of tuberculosis on 18 June 1901, aged twenty-two.

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• PoetryPesmi in romanceJosip Murn-Aleksandrov · 1903not translated into EnglishLiterature