Matija Valjavec

Matija Valjavec was born ...

• in Preddvor, where the school is

• in Srednja Bela

• at castle Turn

He used the name Matija Valjavec Kračmanov because ...

• he liked eating 'krače'

• the place where he was born was called 'at Kračman'

• that was his second surname

He lived ...

• from 1800 to 1849

• from 1831 to 1897

• from 1833 to 1854

He was ...

• a writer

• a priest

• a professor

In Vienna, he studied ...

• law

• Slavistics and Classical languages

• theology

He worked in ...

• Vienna, Austria

• Croatia

• Kranj and Ljubljana

He died in ...

• Srednja Bela

• Varaždin

• Zagreb

His most famous fairy tale in verse is ...

• Pastir

• Hudi Kljukec

• Kekec

He was an important ...

• linguist, translator and collector of folk tales

• writer

• researcher of places at the bottom of Storžič

He was the first to write down the folk fairy tale ...

• Mizica, pogrni se

• Zlata ptica

• Martin Krpan