Janko Kersnik
Janko Kersnik was a Slovene writer and politician. Together with Josip Juri, he is considered the most important representative of literary realism in the Slovene language.
Kersnik was born in Brdo Manor near Lukovica in Upper Carniola, then part of the Austrian Duchy of Carniola . His father Joe Kersnik was a district judge, while his mother Berta Hffern was a local noblewoman. Kersnik grew up in a bilingual, GermanSlovene environment. He attended the Germanlanguage grammar school in Ljubljana, but was expelled under accusations of Slovene nationalism. He continued his studies under the private tutorship of Fran Levec, an influential Young Slovene literary historian.
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