Valentin Stanič

Notable life events

• 1790 – began school in Tarvisio
• 1793 – arrived in Salzburg
• 1798 – entered the seminary
• 1800 – first to climb to the highest point of Watzmann
• 1802 – finished his studies, and was ordained
• 1807 – founded a small printing office
• 1808 – climbed Triglav and measured the height
• 1822 – published the first Slovenian printed book in Gorizia: Songs for farmers and young people
• 1840 – founded the first Slovenian bookshop in Gorizia.
• 1845 – joined the "Association against the torture of animals" in Munich
• 1846 – the first in what was then Austria in Gorizia founded Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals