Background
Gregorčič was born in the small mountain village of Vrsno above the river Soča in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca.
Gregorčič was born in the small mountain village of Vrsno above the river Soča in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca.
In 1851, he attended primary school in Libušnje, but was in 1852 sent to school in Gorizia.
He is considered the first lyric poet of the Slovene realist poetry and the most melodical Slovene poet. After finishing high school he entered the seminary in Gorizia. He was ordained on 27 October 1867 and became a vicar in Kobarid in September 1868.
There he continued with his literary work and together with his friend Ignacij Gruntar in 1871 founded a public reading room.
In 1873 he was transferred to Rihemberk in the Vipava Valley. After that he was transferred a few more times before retiring in 1903, selling his house and moving into a flat in Gorizia, where he died on 24 November 1906.