Bogo Grafenauer

Together with Milko Kos, Fran Zwitter, and Vasilij Melik, he was one of the founders of the so-called Ljubljana school of historiography.

He was father of the historian Darja Mihelič and also the uncle of the flautist Irena Grafenauer and artist Eka Vogelnik.

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.

In the last decade of his life, Grafenauer rose to prominence again with his resolute fight against autochthonist re-interpretations of Slovenian history, especially against the populist Venetic theory, which denied the Slavic settlement in the East Alps.