Janko Orožen (; 10 December 1891 – 30 September 1989)Šlebinger, Janko. 1935. "Orožen Janko." ''Slovenski biografski leksikon'', vol. 6: Mrkun–Peterlin. Ljubljana: Zadružna gospodarska banka. was a Slovene historian and schoolteacher.

Life

Orožen was born in Sveti Štefan (now Turje), where he also attended a one-room school.Kmecl, Matjaž. 1972. "Profesor Janko Orožen - osemdesetletnik." ''Jezik in slovstvo'' 17(4): 113. He attended a teacher training school in

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and then graduated from high school in

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. He enrolled in law school in

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in 1913,Šumrada, Janez. 1981. "Janko Orožen - devetdesetletnik." ''Kronika'' 29(3): 282–283. but withdrew due to a lack of funds. During the First World War he was called up to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army in 1915 and was captured on the Russian front. He then joined the volunteers in the

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in 1918 and fought with them on the

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. In 1922 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the

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, after which he taught as a historian, Slavic specialist, and geographer in

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, and then in Celje at the

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from 1924 until 1941, when he was exiled to

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with his family. He taught in

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and then temporarily went into retirement in 1942. During the interwar period, Orožen wrote textbooks for history, geography,

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, and

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. Altogether he wrote 30 scholarly volumes, 170 articles and reports, and 12 textbooks. Orožen also studied the history of Celje and the

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and

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valleys. After the Second World War, he returned to Celje in 1946 and taught at a high school there until his retirement in 1954. Following the major flood in the town that year, he dedicated himself to work at the Celje Historical Archives and served as director of the archives until his retirement in 1965.

Family

Orožen's daughter is a Slavic specialist, Russian specialist, literary historian, and journalist.

Works

*''Zgodovina Celja I. Prazgodovinska in rimska Celeja'' (History of Celje I. Prehistoric and Roman Celje), 1927. *''Zgodovina Celja II. Srednjeveško Celje'' (History of Celje II. Medieval Celje), 1927. *''Zgodovina Celja III. Novoveško Celje (1456–1848)'' (History of Celje III. Celje in the Modern Era, 1456–1848), 1930. *''Gradovi in graščine v narodnem izročilu'' (Castles and Manors in Folk Heritage), 1936. A collection of folk heritage gathered with the help of his students in various localities between the Savinja,

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, and Sava rivers.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Orozen, Janko 1891 births 1989 deaths 20th-century Slovenian historians University of Ljubljana alumni People from the Municipality of Hrastnik