Pavel Kunaver

Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy, mountain climbing, skiing and caving in Slovenia.[1][2]

Pavel Kunaver
Kunaver in 1914
Born(1889-12-19)19 December 1889
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Died19 April 1988(1988-04-19) (aged 98)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupationpedagogue, writer of popular science books
Notable awardsLevstik Award
1981 for Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah

In 1912 he became the leader of cave exploration at Ljubljana Cave Exploration Society (DZRJL) (founded in 1910), after DZRJL secretary Josip Cerk perished in a snow blizzard on top of Mt. Stol.[3] In the aftermath of World War II the revival of DZRJL was to a great extent based on establishing middle school caving clubs, which Kunaver promoted with great success.[3]

He won the Levstik Award in 1981 for his book Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah (The Story and Truth About the Stars).[4]

Selected Published Works
  • Na planine (Into the Hills), 1921
  • Po gorah in dolinah (In the Hills and In the Valleys), 1923
  • Zadnja pot kapitana Scotta (Captain Scott's Last Journey), 1926
  • V prepadih (Amid Precipices), 1932
  • Skozi led in sneg (Through Ice and Snow), 1944
  • Sprehodi po nebu (Walks Across the Sky), 1944
  • Pastir v Zlatorogovem kraljestvu (The Sheapherd in Goldhorn's Kingdom), 1945
  • Potovanje po nebu (Travelling the Sky), 1951
  • Nebo nad nami (The Sky Above Us), 1956
  • Neizprosen sever (Relentless North), 1958
  • Cerkniško jezero (lake Cerknica), 1961
  • Brezna in vrhovi (Peaks and Abysses), 1974
  • Kažipot po nebu (A Guide to the Sky), 1974
  • Moje steze (My Paths), 1979
  • Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah (The Story and Truth About the Stars), 1981
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References
  1. Slovene Art History Society Bulletin Vol 4, 2009
  2. Pavel Kunaver on the Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
  3. "Zgodovina DZRJL" [History of DZRJL] (in Slovenian). Društvo za raziskovanje jam Ljubljana [Ljubljana Cave Exploration Society]. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
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