1. Josipina Urbancic, who published under the pen name Josipina Turnogradska, was one of the first Slovene female writers, poets, and composers.
10 Facts About Josipina Turnograjska
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Josipina Turnograjska was educated by private tutors at Turn Castle, particularly in music, religion, as well as in Latin and Italian.
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Josipina Turnograjska died there a year later after a combination of complications at childbirth and measles.
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Josipina Turnograjska had extended knowledge of Slovene and European literature and greatly admired France Preseren's poetry and German Romantic writers, as well as popular adventure novels of the time.
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Josipina Turnograjska's work was appreciated in other areas of the Slav-speaking world, mainly because she wrote in a Slavic language.
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Josipina Turnograjska's work was marked by the ideas of Romantic Nationalism, which in the Slovene Lands was connected with Slav mutualism and Panslavism.
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Josipina Turnograjska picked her material from the history of Slovenes and other Slavic peoples, as well as from popular legends.
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Josipina Turnograjska gave great emphasis to poetical descriptions of nature.
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Josipina Turnograjska wrote two poems: Zmiraj krasna je narava and Donava.
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Josipina Turnograjska composed a number of songs for the piano with Slovene lyrics.