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Johan Weichard, Baron von Valvasor

Slovene author

Also known as: Johann Weichard, Freiherr von Valvasor

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Slovenian scholarly tradition

In Slovenia: Education
…17th-century, when the Carniolan polymath Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor provided some of the first written and pictorial descriptions of the Slovene landscape, in his encyclopaedic volumes Die Ehre des Herzogtums Krain (1689; “Glory of the Duchy of Carniola”). The premier centres of research include the Slovenian Academy of Sciences…
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