Ivan Grafenauer

Ivan Grafenauer (7 March 1880 – 29 December 1964) was a Slovenian literary historian and ethnologist of Carinthian Slovene origin.

He was born as Johann Grafenauer, as an illegitimate child of Michael Grafenauer and Elisabeth Flaschberger, in the village of Micheldorf (Slovene: Velika ves) near Hermagor in Carinthia, now part of Austria.

[1] At that time, Micheldorf was the westernmost Slovene-inhabited village, not only in Carinthia, but in all the Slovene ethnic territory.

After finishing high school in Villach in 1900, he enrolled at the University of Vienna, where he studied Slavic and German philology.

Many of his articles were published in the prestigious Catholic cultural magazine Dom in svet.