Simon Gregorčič (15 October 1844 - 24 November 1906) was a Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest. He became popular for his post-romantic patriotic and lyric poems, and was dubbed "the songbird of Goriška".
Gregorčič was born into a farmer's family in the small mountain village of Vrsno above the river Soča in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, then part of the Austrian Empire. He grew up herding his father's flock of sheep and attended primary...
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Simon Gregorčič (15 October 1844 - 24 November 1906) was a Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest. He became popular for his post-romantic patriotic and lyric poems, and was dubbed "the songbird of Goriška".
Gregorčič was born into a farmer's family in the small mountain village of Vrsno above the river Soča in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, then part of the Austrian Empire. He grew up herding his father's flock of sheep and attended primary school in Libušnje. Later he was sent to school in Gorizia. Due to lack of funds he abandoned his initial idea of studying classics and entered the seminary in Gorizia. He was ordained in 1867 and became a vicar in Kobarid in 1868 where he continued with his literary work and founded a public reading room, one of the first in the Slovene Lands.
In 1873 he was transferred to Rihemberk in the Vipava Valley, where he was a popular parish priest, but did not get on well with the church authorities. Disappointed and lonely, he soon fell ill. He...
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