Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: France Pre eren, Alojz Gradnik, Boris Furlan, Josip Vilfan, Engelbert Besednjak, Ivan Hribar, France Bu ar, Karel Lavri, Bogumil Vo njak, Andrej Gosar, Julius Kugy, Ivan Tav ar, Miha Krek, Josip Ferfolja, Karl Erjavec, Peter Jambrek, Lovro turm, Gregor erjav, Sergij Vilfan, Peter Kozler, Luka Svetec, Gregor Virant, Igo Gruden, Leonid Pitamic, Ciril Ribi i, Jo e Mencinger, Lovro Toman, Etbin Henrik Costa, Barbara Brezigar, Ivan uster i, Jovan Vesel Koseski, Juro Adle i, Hugo Zapa owicz, Karol Grossmann, Marko Natla en, Bo tjan Zupan i . Excerpt: France Pre eren (.)) (3 December 1800 - 8 February 1849) was a Slovene Romantic poet. He is considered the Slovene national poet. Although he was not a particularly prolific author, he inspired virtually all Slovene literature thereafter. Pre eren's birth house in Vrba France Pre eren and the first verse of the 7th stanza of Zdravljica on the Slovenian 2 euro coin The first edition of Pre eren's collected poems, published in the reformed Slovenian script in 1847 The original manuscript for Zdravljica, written in the old Slovenian alphabetHe was born 3 December 1800 (Saturday) in the Upper Carniolan village of Vrba, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy (today in Slovenia), to a relatively well-to-do peasant family. Already as a child, he showed considerable talent, so his parents decided to provide him with a good education. At the age of eight, he was sent to elementary schools in Grosuplje and Ribnica, run by the local Roman Catholic clergy. In 1812, he moved to the Carniolan provincial capital of Ljubljana, where he attended the State Gymnasium. Already at a very young age, he learned Latin, Ancient Greek, as well as German, which was then the language of education, administration and high culture in most areas inhabited by Slovenes. In Ljubljana, Pre eren's talent was...