Anton Funtek
| Anton Funtek | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
30 October 1862 Ljubljana, Austrian Empire (now Slovenia) |
| Died |
21 October 1932 Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Occupation | writer, poet, translator, editor |
Anton Funtek (30 October 1862 – 21 October 1932) was a Slovene writer, poet, editor and translator.
Funtek was born in Ljubljana that was then part of the Austrian Empire, now the capital of Slovenia. He trained as a teacher and worked in Litija and Šentvid pri Stični before going to a Technical college in Vienna. He then worked as a secondary school teacher in Ljubljana until his retirement in 1925. He was editor of the journal Ljubljanski zvon between 1891 and 1894 and editor of the newspaper Laibacher Zeitung for a number of years.[1] For a while he was also president of the Slovene Writers' Association.[2] He is known for his translations into Slovene of Shakespeare's King Lear, Schiller's Song of the Bell, the first part of Goethe's Faust and The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann.