Pavel Kunaver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pavel Kunaver

Slovenian science writer

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1889

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1988

Profession: astronomer, writer, teacher, geographer, mountaineer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy, mountain climbing, skiing and caving in Slovenia.In 1912 he became the leader of cave exploration at Ljubljana Cave Exploration Society (DZRJL) (founded in 1910), after DZRJL secretary Josip Cerk perished in a snow blizzard on top of Mt.
Stol.
In the aftermath of World War II the revival of DZRJL was to a great extent based on establishing middle school caving clubs, which Kunaver promoted with great success.He won the Levstik Award in 1981 for his book Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah (The Story and Truth About the Stars).