Janez Vesel
{{Short description|Slovene lawyer and poet}}
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| death_place = Trieste, Austria-Hungary
| occupation = Lawyer and poet
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Janez Vesel (12 September 1798 – 26 March 1884), known by his pen name Jovan Koseski (Slovene conventions also include the names {{lang|sl|Jovan Vesel – Koseski}} and, less often, {{lang|sl|Janez Vesel – Koseski}} or {{lang|sl|Ivan Vesel – Koseski}}{{#tag:ref|The names Janez, Jovan, and Ivan are all variations of the name 'John'.Keber, Janez. 1988. Leksikon imen. Izvor imen na Slovenskem. Celje: Mohorjeva družba, p. 213.|group=Note}}M.P. 1898. "Ivan Vesel-Koseski, slovenski pesnik" Dom in svet 11(23).) was a Slovene lawyer and poet.
Life and work
File:Spodnje Koseze Slovenia - plaque.jpg marking Vesel's birthplace ]]
Vesel was born in Gorenje (now part of Spodnje Koseze) in the Duchy of Carniola in the Habsburg monarchy (now in Slovenia) and baptized Johannes Vesseu.{{cite book |title=Taufbuch |date=1784–1802 |location=Moravče |page=155 |url=https://data.matricula-online.eu/sl/slovenia/ljubljana/moravce/01505/?pg=79 |access-date=8 March 2023}} He studied law in Graz and Vienna and worked in Trieste for most of his professional life. In his student years, he mostly wrote in German. In 1818, his sonnet {{lang|sl|Potažba}} (The Comfort) was the first sonnet ever printed in Slovene. No further works by Koseski are known until 1844, when he published his ode {{lang|sl|Slovenja Caru Ferdinandu}} (Slovenia to Emperor Ferdinand), dedicated to Emperor Ferdinand. The poem where he describes the history of the Slovene Lands since the Roman times is widely regarded as his best work. Afterwards, he continued writing and also translating poetry.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lukovica.si/kultura/koseski.asp |title=Lukovica municipal site |access-date=2008-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008205637/http://www.lukovica.si/kultura/koseski.asp |archive-date=2007-10-08 |url-status=dead }} Vesel was a grandfather of the Austrian-Italian mountaineer and author Julius Kugy. He died in Trieste.
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The word ''Slovenija''
Vesel's 1844 ode was long considered the earliest known printed use of the word {{lang|sl|Slovenija}} 'Slovenia', at the time referring to the Slovene Lands. In the early 1990s, it was found that the word was already printed in 1841 in the book {{lang|ru-Latn|Drevnie i nynešnie Slovene}} (The Ancient and Modern Slovenes) by the Russian writer Yuriy Venelin.{{cite journal |url=http://www.revijasrp.si/knrevsrp/revsrp61/jusru61/slove61.htm |title=Slovenija že od leta 1834 |language=Slovenian |trans-title=Slovenija Already from 1834 |first=Just |last=Rugelj |journal=Revija SRP |volume=12 |year=2004 |issue=61/62 |issn=1580-6499 |publisher=Zavod za založništvo na področju kulture in umetnosti [Institute for Publishing in the Fields of Culture and Art] |access-date=2015-09-27 |archive-date=2018-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428120843/http://www.revijasrp.si/knrevsrp/revsrp61/jusru61/slove61.htm |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Lawyers from the Austrian Empire
Category:Poets from the Austrian Empire
Category:Lawyers from Austria-Hungary
Category:Poets from Austria-Hungary
Category:People from the Municipality of Lukovica