1. Josip Murn was born in a condominium in the very center of Ljubljana as an illegitimate son to a poor woman, Maria Josip Murn, and baptized Josef.
12 Facts About Josip Murn
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Josip Murn's mother moved to Trieste soon after his birth, leaving him in foster care to some relatives from the suburbs of Ljubljana.
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Josip Murn was a gifted student, shy, but very self-confident.
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Josip Murn started writing poetry at a very young age and soon achieved a very high level of quality.
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Josip Murn's talent was spotted by a high-class society woman Franja Tavcar, the influential wife of the national-liberal politician and author Ivan Tavcar, who arranged for him a scholarship to study at the University of Vienna.
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Josip Murn spent several months in Upper Carniola, when he observed the peasant life style.
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Josip Murn began to incorporate peasant motifs in his symbolist poetry.
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Josip Murn took elements not only from Slovene, but from Irish, Scottish, Slovak, and Latvian folk motifs.
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Josip Murn later traveled to the Austrian Littoral, visiting his mother in Trieste and living briefly in Grado before settling in the Vipava Valley for some time.
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Josip Murn settled in Ljubljana in 1901, renting a small room in a slum building on the banks of the river Ljubljanica.
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Josip Murn died there at the age of 22 from tuberculosis, on the same bed as his friend Dragotin Kette just two years before.
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Josip Murn is buried in the Zale cemetery, next to the tombs of Dragotin Kette, Ivan Cankar and Oton Zupancic, in what is known as the "monument of Slovene modernism".