Martin Baučer also known as Martin Baucer, was a Slovene historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 who wrote in Latin

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.

Baučer was born in the village of Selo

Selo, Ajdovšcina

Selo is a village in the Vipava Valley in the Ajdovščina Municipality in the Littoral region of Slovenia....

 near Ajdovščina

Ajdovšcina

Ajdovščina is a small town and a municipality with the same name and a population of 7000 , located in the Vipava Valley , Slovenia....

 in the Vipava Valley

Vipava Valley

The Vipava Valley is a valley located in the Slovenian Littoral, between the towns of Nova Gorica and Vipava.-Geography:It is a narrow valley, serving as the main passage between Friulian lowland and central Slovenia, and thus also an important corridor connecting Northern Italy to Central Europe...

, in what was then the County of Gorizia

County of Gorizia

The County of Görz was a county based around the town of Gorizia in the present-day Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy.Count Meinhard, descendant of the Bavarian Meinhardiner noble family with possessions around Lienz in Tyrol, is mentioned as early as 1107...

 (now in Slovenia

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). He studied philosophy

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 and theology

Theology

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 in the Moravia

Moravia

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n town of Brno

Brno

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, where he joined the Jesuit order.

His most important work is "The History of Noricum

Noricum

Noricum, in ancient geography, was a Celtic kingdom stretching over the area of today's Austria and a part of Slovenia. It became a province of the Roman Empire...

 and Friuli

Friuli

Friuli is an area of northeastern Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, i.e. the province of Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, excluding Trieste...

" (Historia rerum noricarum et forojuliensium), written in ten books and comprising a period going from the Deluge to the coronation of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick the Peaceful KG was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452...

. His other important work include a Chronicle of Contemporary Events and a comprehensive biography of the Counts of Gorizia.

He died in Gorizia

Gorizia

Gorizia is a town and comune in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, and it is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce. Since 1947, a twin...

 in 1668.

According to the Slovene historian Bogo Grafenauer

Bogo Grafenauer

Bogo Grafenauer was a Slovenian historian, who mostly wrote about medieval history in the Slovene Lands. Together with Milko Kos, Fran Zwitter, and Vasilij Melik, he was one of the founders of the so-called Ljubljana school of historiography.- Early life :He was born in Ljubljana in a well...

, Baučar's descriptions of earlier periods are of little worth, while his accounts of contemporary events are an important source for the history of the 17th century.

Sources

• Bogo Grafenauer, Struktura in tehnika zgodovinske vede (Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, 1960)
• Short biography on the RTV pages