Background
Cigale was born on 2 September 1819 in the village of Lome.
Cigale was born on 2 September 1819 in the village of Lome.
He attended primary school in Črni Vrh until 1830 and high school in Gorizia until 1841. He then studied theology in Ljubljana and law in Graz and Vienna, where he graduated in 1846.
He was one of the most influential Slovene linguists of the 19th century, particularly notable for his lexicographical and grammar work. He served as an trainee judge in Gorizia until 1847, and then took the exam for judges in January 1848. He gave up his position as a civil servant, and served as the secretary of the Slovenian Society (Slovene: Slovensko društvo) and editor of the newspaper Slovenija in Ljubljana from 1 July 1848 to mid-September 1849.
Cigale died on 20 April 1889 in Vienna.
Cigale Street (Slovene: Cigaletova ulica) in Ljubljana is named after Cigale.