Baron Janez Vajkard Valvasor (also "Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor") (baptized on May 28, 1641 - September 19, 1693), was a Carniolian nobleman, scholar, and polymath, member of the Royal Society. Janez Vajkard Valvasor was born in May 1641 in Ljubljana, Carniola, present-day Slovenia to father Jernej and mother Ana Marija b. Ravbar. The Valvasors resided in a family castle Medija in Izlake. Janez Vajkard's father died when he was ten years old. Wikipedia
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