Anton Funtek was a Slovene writer

Writer

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, poet

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, editor

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 and translator.

Funtek was born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

 that was then part of the Austrian Empire

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, now the capital of Slovenia

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. He trained as a teacher and worked in Litija

Litija

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 and Šentvid pri Stični

Šentvid pri Stični

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 before going to a Technical college in Vienna

Vienna

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. He then worked as a seconary school teacher in Ljubljana until his retirement in 1925. He was editor of the journal Ljubljanski zvon

Ljubljanski zvon

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 between 1891 and 1894 and editor of the newspaper Laibacher Zeitung

Laibacher Zeitung

Laibacher Zeitung was the largest and most influential newspaper in Ljubljana in the 18th and 19th century. It was written in German and published daily from 1778 till 1918. In its first period, it was published with a supplement Intelligenzblatt aimed at spreading knowledge among the general public...

 for a number of years. For a while he was also president of the Slovene Writers' Association

Slovene Writers' Association

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. He is known for his translations into Slovene of Shakespeare's King Lear

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, Schiller

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's Song of the Bell

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, the first part of Goethe's Faust

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 and The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

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