Background
Pregelj was born to a tailor"s family in Most na Soči (at that time called Sveta Lucija). His father died while Pregelj was still a child.
Pregelj was born to a tailor"s family in Most na Soči (at that time called Sveta Lucija). His father died while Pregelj was still a child.
He attended school with the help of the parish priest.
After graduating from high school, he started studying theology, but soon abandoned this. He then went to Vienna, where he entered the programs in Slavic studies and German studies. He wrote his dissertation on the Capuchin sermon-writer Mihael Krammer (1667–1728).
Pregelj taught as a secondary school instructor in Gorizia, Pazin, Idrija, Kranj, and Ljubljana.
He intentionally stopped writing around age fifty. Pregelj died in Ljubljana on 21 January 1960.