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 the 1920s
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

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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