Glazer Homestead

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Glazer Homestead

Janko Glazer was primarily a poet, and an epigrammatist, but also a critic, essayist, translator of poetry (he mainly translated Goethe, Heine, Nazor, Kranjčević), literary and cultural historian, editor, bibliographer, and librarian.

He published five poetry collections: Pohorske Poti (1919), Čas-Kovač (1929), Ob Jesenskem Ekvinociju (1946), Pesmi in Napisi (1953), and Pohorje (1968). Due to the impressive images of Pohorje, he is considered its poet.

He studied Slavic studies and German studies in Graz, Vienna, Zagreb and Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1922. In the years 1920-26, he taught at the Maribor Classical High School, then he worked as a librarian in the Maribor Study Library, and from 1931 to 1959 as a principal. He transformed it into one of the most prominent Slovenian libraries, which is why one of the halls of today's Maribor University Library was named after him. The elementary school and the library in Ruše are also named after him.

Janko Glazer's birthplace with his memorial plaque is located on Glazerjeva Ulica in Ruše.

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