Education
University of Vienna.
University of Vienna.
The renowned author Ivan Cankar described him as the best Slovene stylist of his period. He was an ardent describer of the Žumberak Mountains and of the Lower Carniolan region of Slovenia. Trdina Peak (Slovene: Trdinov vrh, Croatian: Sveta Gera), the highest peak in the Gorjanci Ridge on the border between southeastern Slovenia and Croatia, was named for him in 1923.
Trdina was born in Mengeš in the northern Carniola, then part of the Austrian Empire.
He attended school in Ljubljana and studied history, geography, and Slavic philology in Vienna. He worked as a teacher in Croatia, in Varaždin and in Rijeka.
He moved to Bršljin near Novo Mesto, and later to the town itself.
In 1867, he was retired on charges of misleading students with his radical liberal political views.