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povzetki, synopses, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
(Tübingen, 1595), ki ga je uredil in vanj prispeval štiri pesmi. Znojilšek je spreten verzi-
fikator, njegove pesmi izražajo dokaj smisla za estetsko čutenje in sproščenost, presene-
ča tudi jezikovna čistost.
Posebna zanimivost v slovenski kulturni zgodovini je ne povsem dokazana, a ver-
jetna zgodba o njegovih naslednikih na Švedskem. Vodilni švedski pesnik in diplomat
grof Carl Snoilsky je verjel, da njegov rod izhaja iz slovenskega protestantskega pastor-
ja, rojenega v kraju Znojile na Kranjskem. Na Slovenskem je zgodbo populariziral An-
ton Aškerc. Skandinavski literarni zgodovinarji ugotavljajo, da je je Carl Snoilsky moč-
no vplival na dramatiko Henrika Ibsena, še posebej na dramo Rosmersholm.
Ključne besede: Janž Znojilšek, Carl Snoilsky, reformacija, protireformacija
Janž Znojilšek – a religious and literary reformer
Janž Znojilšek (1568–1659) belongs to the last generation of Slovenian reformers. He
was born in Ljubljana, and had the good fortune, through the support of Adam Bohorič,
to experience a grammar school education in the famous school in the former Cister-
cian monastery of Shulpfort near Jena in Thuringia, which then enabled him to study
at Wittenberg University (1587–1588), finishing with a master’s degree. For two years he
taught at the Carniolan estates (Landstände) school in Ljubljana, where he also acted as
preacher and school overseer, and later as priest in Trubar’s parish of Škocjan near Tur-
jak, under the eye of the Count of Turjak. In 1600 he was forced into exile. At first he
was to go to Tübingen, and then was a preacher in Vienna (Hernals, 1609–1615), where
his portrait, as we know it, was made. Later he moved on to the German provinces, and
in 1626–1637 was pastor and professor of Hebrew in Heilbronn. In 1637 he left this city,
moving to western Friesland, where he similarly served as a pastor.
Znojilšek’s poetic output is seen firstly in two hymns in the last Slovenian Protestant
hymnbook Ta celi catechismvs […] inv teh vekshih Godou […] (v’Tibingi, 1595). But his
main work is certainly Katechismvs Doctoria Martina Luthra (Tübingen, 1595), which he
edited and to which he contributed four hymns. Znojilšek is a competent versifier, his
hymns showing a considerable sense for aesthetic feeling and “unstrainedness”, while
their linguistic purity is surprising.
Of particular interest in Slovenian cultural history is the probable, though not com-
pletely proven story of his descendants in Sweden. The leading Swedish poet and diplo-
mat Count Carl Snoilsky believed that his family was descended from a Slovenian Prot-
estant pastor, born in the place Znojile in Carniola. In Slovenia the story was popular-
ized by Anton Aškerc. Scandinavian literary historians have established that Carl Snoil-
sky strongly influenced the dramatist Henrik Ibsen, particularly in his play Rosmersholm.
Keywords: Janž Znojilšek/Johann Snoilshik, Carl Snoilsky, Reformation,
Counter-Reformation
227
(Tübingen, 1595), ki ga je uredil in vanj prispeval štiri pesmi. Znojilšek je spreten verzi-
fikator, njegove pesmi izražajo dokaj smisla za estetsko čutenje in sproščenost, presene-
ča tudi jezikovna čistost.
Posebna zanimivost v slovenski kulturni zgodovini je ne povsem dokazana, a ver-
jetna zgodba o njegovih naslednikih na Švedskem. Vodilni švedski pesnik in diplomat
grof Carl Snoilsky je verjel, da njegov rod izhaja iz slovenskega protestantskega pastor-
ja, rojenega v kraju Znojile na Kranjskem. Na Slovenskem je zgodbo populariziral An-
ton Aškerc. Skandinavski literarni zgodovinarji ugotavljajo, da je je Carl Snoilsky moč-
no vplival na dramatiko Henrika Ibsena, še posebej na dramo Rosmersholm.
Ključne besede: Janž Znojilšek, Carl Snoilsky, reformacija, protireformacija
Janž Znojilšek – a religious and literary reformer
Janž Znojilšek (1568–1659) belongs to the last generation of Slovenian reformers. He
was born in Ljubljana, and had the good fortune, through the support of Adam Bohorič,
to experience a grammar school education in the famous school in the former Cister-
cian monastery of Shulpfort near Jena in Thuringia, which then enabled him to study
at Wittenberg University (1587–1588), finishing with a master’s degree. For two years he
taught at the Carniolan estates (Landstände) school in Ljubljana, where he also acted as
preacher and school overseer, and later as priest in Trubar’s parish of Škocjan near Tur-
jak, under the eye of the Count of Turjak. In 1600 he was forced into exile. At first he
was to go to Tübingen, and then was a preacher in Vienna (Hernals, 1609–1615), where
his portrait, as we know it, was made. Later he moved on to the German provinces, and
in 1626–1637 was pastor and professor of Hebrew in Heilbronn. In 1637 he left this city,
moving to western Friesland, where he similarly served as a pastor.
Znojilšek’s poetic output is seen firstly in two hymns in the last Slovenian Protestant
hymnbook Ta celi catechismvs […] inv teh vekshih Godou […] (v’Tibingi, 1595). But his
main work is certainly Katechismvs Doctoria Martina Luthra (Tübingen, 1595), which he
edited and to which he contributed four hymns. Znojilšek is a competent versifier, his
hymns showing a considerable sense for aesthetic feeling and “unstrainedness”, while
their linguistic purity is surprising.
Of particular interest in Slovenian cultural history is the probable, though not com-
pletely proven story of his descendants in Sweden. The leading Swedish poet and diplo-
mat Count Carl Snoilsky believed that his family was descended from a Slovenian Prot-
estant pastor, born in the place Znojile in Carniola. In Slovenia the story was popular-
ized by Anton Aškerc. Scandinavian literary historians have established that Carl Snoil-
sky strongly influenced the dramatist Henrik Ibsen, particularly in his play Rosmersholm.
Keywords: Janž Znojilšek/Johann Snoilshik, Carl Snoilsky, Reformation,
Counter-Reformation
227
