Luka Svetec [SEP] occupation
Luka Svetec
Luka Svetec (8 October 1826 – 28 January 1921) was a Slovene politician, lawyer, author and philologist. In the 1870s and 1880s, Svetec was one of the most influential leaders of the so-called Old Slovenes, a national conservative political group in 19th century Slovene Lands. He was renowned as an honest and principled politician, and was praised for his decency and his straightforward, practical attitude to political questions and life in general. The Old Slovene leader Janez Bleiweis called him "a crystallized Slovene
Nenadović, Serbian poet and historian (died 1895)
- September 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion, Canadian journalist (died 1866)
Births October–December.
- October 8 – Luka Svetec, Slovene-Austrian poet and philologist (died 1921)
- October 9 – Agathon Meurman, Finnish journalist and lexicographer (died 1909)
- October 19
- Manuel Joël, German historian, philosopher and Jewish theologian (died 1890)
- Athénaïs Michelet, French science writer and memoirist (died 1899