Prva tri desetletja življenja vidnega ljubljanskega protestanta Lenarta Budine (1500–1573)

The article presents the first thirty years of life of Lenart Budina, who was born in or near Carniola’s capital in 1500 and died there in 1573. Budina is best known as the first rector of the Protestant-run Estates School in Ljubljana. Primary focus is on questions concerning Budina’s birth, the identity of his parents, his studies in Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau, employment at the printworks of Johann Froben in Basel, his teaching position in the nearby Rheinfelden, as well as his contacts with Erasmus of Rotterdam, Heinrich Glarean, and other humanists. Attention is drawn to Budina’s possible connection to the court of Ferdinand I and the circles surrounding the Papal curia in the years prior to his return to Ljubljana about 1533. The author also specifically addresses the issue of how much importance Budina ascribed to learning Greek, the basics of which he could pass on to his students after returning to his native town as a “Latin teacher.”