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Ivan Cankar
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OverviewAI-generated
Ivan Cankar was a male author from Slovenia. He was born on May 10, 1876, and died on December 11, 1918. His literary output includes works such as *Aus fremden Leben*, *Das Haus der Barmherzigkeit*, *Za narodov blagor*, *Zgodbe iz doline šentflorjanske*, and *Proza*. Records indicate he has 16 works, with a separate count of 5 works listed in another database.
Cankar is referenced by 136 other encyclopedia articles. He has a presence on Last.fm, where he has one listener and 18 plays.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1876
- Died
- 1918
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Aus fremden Leben
- Das Haus der Barmherzigkeit
- Za narodov blagor
- Zgodbe iz doline šentflorjanske
- Proza
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Slovenia
- Active from
- 1876-05-10
- Active to
- 1918-12-11
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 18
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ivan+Cankar">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations
· 2010 · cited 11,748x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,561x
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,236x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,660x
- A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping
· 2014 · cited 9,233x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1876-05-10 ) 10 May 1876, Vrhnika , Carniola , Austrian Empire
- Died
- 11 December 1918 (1918-12-11) (aged 42), Ljubljana , Kingdom of SHS
- Occupation
- Writer essayist playwright poet political activist
- Education
- University of Vienna
- Genre
- plays, short stories, short novels , essays
- Literary movement
- Symbolism , Modernism
via Wikipedia infobox
~21 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Ivan Cankar ( pronounced [ˈíːʋan ˈtsàːŋkaɾ], pronunciation) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in Slovene, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.
Biography
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