After the founding of Ljubljana University in 1919, it was not until 1929 that the Slovene students at the Faculty of Philosophy obtained textbooks on the literary history of Slovenes. Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937), the first lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy during 1919-1937 published no textbooks on Slovene literature history. The most successful writer of such textbooks was Ivan Grafenauer (1880-1964), who was not elected as a lecturer at the newly founded Faculty of Philosophy. In the period from 1905 to 1929 many works and books on Slovene literary history were published in the Serbo-Croatian language. Pavle Popović (1868-1939), a professor of Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and Fran Ilešič (1871-1942), a professor of Slovene literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, contributed to the fact that Serbs and Croats became interested in Slovene Literature.
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