The poet and writer was born on the 27th of October 1835 in Podreča near Mavčiče. Between 1864 and 1866 Jenko lived in Kranj and worked as a probationer with a famous notary in Kranj. Later he worked as a clerk in Kamnik, but a few months before his death he returned to Kranj, where he died on the 18th of October 1869, aged 33. The house where the Slovene poet Simon Jenko lived and died is on the Pot na kolodvor in the old town centre. On the house there is a memorial plaque the city unveiled on the 60th anniversary of the national reading club on the 2nd of September 1923. Jenko’s memorial tombstone stands in Prešeren’s grove, which dates back to 1873, designed and made by Janez Vurnik, a stonecutter from Radovljica. An elementary school and a street in Kranj are named after Jenko.
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