Background
Schönleben was born in Ljubljana, the son of the politician Ludwig Schönleben and his wife Suzane Kušlan.
Schönleben was born in Ljubljana, the son of the politician Ludwig Schönleben and his wife Suzane Kušlan.
The family originally stemmed from Württemberg. Schönleben studied in Vienna, Graz, and Passau. Schönleben was a well-known rhetorician and some of his speeches were also published.
He was important in theology as a proponent of the Immaculate Conception.
As a historian, he wrote a series of genealogies of Carniolan noble families. His most important work was Carniolia antiqua et nova (Carniola Old and New.
Ljubljana, 1681). Schönleben died in Ljubljana and was buried in Saint James"s Church.