Bogo Grafenauer

Bogo Grafenauer (16 March 1916 – 12 May 1995) was a

He was born in Ljubljana in a well-established Carinthian Slovene family. His father, Ivan Grafenauer, was a famous literary historian and ethnologist and nephew of Franc Grafenauer [de], a representative in the Carinthian provincial assembly and representative of Carinthia in Vienna parliament. He was the brother of the mineralogist Stanko Grafenauer and designer, architect and choreographer Marija Grafenauer-Vogelnik [sl]. He was also uncle to flautist Irena Grafenauer and multiartist Eka Vogelnik.

He studied

Grafenauer started publishing already in the late 1930s.[1] In his academic career, Grafenauer focused on social history in the Middle Ages. He continued the researches of Milko Kos on settlements patterns in the Slovene Lands in the Early Middle Ages, focusing on the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps and the medieval Slavic principality of Carantania. He wrote several treatises on the transition between tribal and feudal socio-economic forms in the Eastern Alps and the west Balkans.^[1] His main contribution was however the history of the German Peasants' Wars in the late 15th and 16th century in the Slovene Lands and in Croatia. He also wrote on the history of the Slovenes in Carinthia in the 19th and 20th centuries, and on agricultural modernization in the early 19th century. Since the 1950s and 1960s, he was among those who introduced the approaches of the French Annales school in the Yugoslav historiography.

Between 1945 and 1955, he wrote several expert surveys on border areas in

Bogo Grafenauer died in Ljubljana and was buried in the Žale cemetery. His daughter, Darja Mihelič [sl], is also a historian.

References

Further reading

• Grafenauerjev zbornik, edited by Vincenc Rajšp. Ljubljana: Scientific Research Centre, 1996.
• Oto Luthar, Med kronologijo in fikcijo. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče, 1993.