Josip Stritar (6 March 1836 – 25 November 1923[1]) was a Slovene writer, poet, essayist, the first aesthetic critic, playwright, publisher and translator.

[2] Stritar spent his early childhood in his home village of Podsmreka in rural Lower Carniola and was sent to school in Ljubljana.

Stritar returned to the Slovene Lands in January 1923, after he was in recognition of his work given a house in Rogaška Slatina by the regional government in Ljubljana.

Despite living most of his life in Vienna, he was much admired and appreciated at home even during his lifetime and was made an honorary member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1919.

Stritar's birth house has been replaced with another building; from his period, only a granary has been preserved.