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Wikipedia: Baron Janez Vajkard Valvasor or Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor (or Valvasour), Freiherr zu Gallenegg und Neudorff, Herr zu Wagensperg und Liechtenberg (baptized on May 28, 1641 - September 19, 1693) was a Slovenian nobleman, a scholar and polymath, and a Fellow of The Royal Society, which gives "soldier" as his profession. Neither the exact day nor the actual place of his birth are known, but from the fact that his baptism was registered at St. Nicholas Church in Ljubljana it appears very likely that he was also born in Ljubljana, Carniola in May 1641 as the twelfth child to father Jernej and mother Ana Marija b. Ravbar (Anna Maria Freiin von Rauber), who did not only live at their family castle Medija/Gallenegg in Izlake but also had a town residence in Ljubljana at "Alter Markt", today No. 4 Stari trg.
![[Valvasor in 1689]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Janez_Vajkard_Valvasor_s.jpg "Valvasor in 1689")
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