Marko Pohlin

He was baptized Antonius Puhlin[1] in Ljubljana, in what was then the Duchy of Carniola in the Habsburg monarchy, born the son of a tavern owner.

Pohlin was also the author of the book Kraynske kroneke (The Carniolan Chronicles, 1770), which is considered the first work of historiography written in Slovene.

In his monograph, republished and enlarged in 1788, Pohlin took as a source the Dalmatian humanist historian Mauro Orbini, who saw the Slavs as the most ancient people in Europe.

He also used the occasion to warn his readers of the dangers of bibliomania, several years before the word became popularized in Great Britain by John Ferriar and Thomas Dibdin in 1809.

Although Pohlin's linguistic innovations were later rejected by his successors, his Kraynska grammatika marked the beginning of the revival of Slovene language and culture, which was later continued in Zois' circle.