Ivan Tavčar

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Portrait of Ivan Tavčar by Jurij Šubic

Ivan Tavčar (pronunciation

Slovenian
writer, lawyer, and politician.

Biography

Tavčar was born into the poor peasant family of Janez and Neža née Perko in the Carniolan village of Poljane[1] near Škofja Loka in what was then the Austrian Empire (now Slovenia). He was baptized Janez Taučar.[2] It has never been entirely clear who his father was.[3] This disputed origin significantly influenced Tavčar's later personal life and political decisions.[4]

Tavčar's tomb at the Visoko estate

He started schooling in his home village and continued in

Parliament
. In 1911, he succeeded Ivan Hribar as mayor of Ljubljana.

In 1887, he married

Sokol movement in the Slovene Lands
.

Tavčar remained in office as the mayor of Ljubljana until 1921,[1] when he withdrew from public life after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. He spent his last years on his estate in Visoko, where he is buried.

Politics

Tavčar's estate in Visoko near Škofja Loka

Ivan Tavčar was one of the main figures in the national-liberal political movement in the

State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats. After 1918, Tavčar became a staunch supporter of Yugoslav unitarism; that is, the merger of the Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs into one Yugoslav nation. However, he did not play a major political role during the last years of his life due to his deteriorating health.[6][7]

Tavčar was also known for his polemics with the Catholic theoretician

integralist
policies.

Literary work

Tavčar was influenced by the literature of the older generation of Slovenian nationalist and liberal authors, known as Young Slovenes (Mladoslovenci), among them Fran Levstik, Josip Jurčič, Josip Stritar, and Janko Kersnik. However, Tavčar was one of the first who fully adhered to Literary realism, rejecting the post-romanticism of the Young Slovenes.
He started writing at the age of 17 in a school magazine and attained stylistic maturity in his latest works. He signed many of his works with the pseudonym Emil Leon. He often depicted rural environments of his native Upper Carniola, in which he saw a genuine and healthy counterpart to the somehow degenerate urban life. His most important work is Visoška kronika (The Visoko Chronicle), a short historical novel set in the period after the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century. Another important work is Cvetje v jeseni (Blossoms in Autumn), a novel of a middle age urban dweller who moves to the countryside, where he falls in love with a younger girl.

Although he never rejected his

Roman Catholic religion, he was essentially an agnostic who adhered to an outward naturalistic world view.[citation needed] In his novels, he conveyed a critically optimistic view on the human condition, drawing from the tradition of Enlightenment and humanism
.

Selected works

  • Ivan Slavelj (1876)
  • Vita vitae meae (1883)[1]
  • Mrtva srca (The Dead Hearts, 1884)
  • Janez Sonce (1885–1886)
  • Med gorami (Among the Mountains, a collection of short stories, 1876–1888)[1]
  • Grajski pisar (The Castle Scribe, 1889)
  • 4000 (1891)
  • V Zali (In the Zala Valley, 1894)[1]
  • Izza kongresa (Behind the Congress, 1905–1908)[1]
  • Cvetje v jeseni (Blossoms in Autumn, 1917)[1]
  • Visoška kronika (The Visoko Chronicle, 1919)[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 536.
  2. ^ Geburts- und Tauf-Buch. Poljane nad Škofjo Loko. 1838–1864. p. 105. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  3. ^ Miha Naglič (12 October 2011). "Rod in rojstvo Ivana Tavčarja" [The Kinship and the Birth of Ivan Tavčar]. Gorenjski glas (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 30 April 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Pisatelju so se sanje o plemenitem rodu izpolnile šele s poroko" [The Author's Dreams about a Noble Kinship Came True Only with His Marriage] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenia. 20 November 2011.
  5. ^ Selišnik, Irena (2013). "The Desire to be Free: Marica Nadlišek Bartol and the Young Intelligentsia at the Turn of the 20th Century". Historijski zbornik. 66 (1): 101–120.
  6. ^ Roszkowski, Wojciech; Kofman, Jan (2016). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 2669.
  7. S2CID 149434906
    .

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Preceded by Mayor of Ljubljana
1911–1921 		Succeeded by
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