Between 1850 and 1860, a number of Slovenians studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Graz. The most notable students, who left a significant mark with their later teaching and professional work, were Luka Zima, Josip Šuman, Anton Mazek, Martin Senekovič, Matej Vodušek, and Anton Klodič. They worked as teachers at various gymnasia throughout the Monarchy. The only one who taught exclusively at gymnasia in Slovenia was Matej Vodušek, while Luka Zima was the only one who later also worked as a university lecturer. Josip Šuman made a name for himself as a translator, and also contributed to the development of Slovenian textbooks for the classical languages; Anton Mazek and Martin Senekovič were high school principals. Matej Vodušek devoted himself to research in the fields of astronomy, meteorology and mathematics alongside his teaching work, and he also wrote a Greek grammar, which was never published. Anton Klodič worked as a school inspector alongside his teaching work, and he also became famous as a writer. All of them published their articles in the field of classical philology in the annual reports (Programme, Jahresberichte) of the gymnasia where they taught. In the first ten years, there were only a few Slovenian students of classical philology at the University of Graz, but there were considerably more between 1860 and 1870.
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