“And All the Wisdom of Life Is Perhaps to Be as Ready as the Sound of a Flute ...”
Life and retrospective of the professional achievements of Božena Orožen (1929-2025)
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Božena Orožen, exiles, Slovenian-Czech literary contacts, home loreAbstract
This article presents the life and work of Božena Orožen (1929-2025), teacher of Slovene and Russian, librarian and researcher. Her work focused on local history research, Slovenian-Czech literary contacts and the popularisation of local cultural history. After her exile to Serbia during the Second World War, she studied Slavic Studies in Ljubljana and then taught for several decades at a secondary school in Celje. She published several scientific and professional articles and contributed to the development of teaching materials. In 1994, she was one of the initiators of the establishment of the University for the Third Age of Life in Celje. Her bibliography includes contributions in the fields of literary history, local history studies and didactics. She is one of the most important Slavists and cultural history experts in Celje.
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