Josip Murn Aleksandrov

Josip Murn Aleksandrov

March 04, 1879 – June 18, 1901
Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia)
Place of Death: Ljubljana

Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov (4 March 1879 – 18 June 1901) was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one of the beginners of modernism in Slovene literature. After France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek, Murn was probably the most influential Slovene poet of the last two centuries.