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| Born | (1862-10-30)30 October 1862 Ljubljana, Austrian Empire (now Slovenia) |
| Died | 21 October 1932(1932-10-21) (aged 69) Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
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Anton Funtek (30 October 1862 – 21 October 1932) was a Slovene writer, poet, editor and translator.
Funtek was born in Ljubljana that was then part of the Austrian Empire, now the capital of Slovenia. He trained as a teacher and worked in Litija and Šentvid pri Stični before going to a Technical college in Vienna. He then worked as a secondary school teacher in Ljubljana until his retirement in 1925. He was editor of the journal Ljubljanski zvon between 1891 and 1894 and editor of the newspaper Laibacher Zeitung for a number of years. For a while he was also president of the Slovene Writers' Association. He is known for his translations into Slovene of Shakespeare's King Lear, Schiller's Song of the Bell, the first part of Goethe's Faust and The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann.
References
- "Anton Fundek in the Slovene Biographical Lexicon". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
- Slovene Writer's Association site, History of the SWA Archived 14 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Works by Anton Funtek at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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