He wrote in a typically Romantic manner, following the example of France Prešeren and Josipina Turnograjska. He rejected the literary realism of the younger generations of Slovene authors who entered the scene in the mid-1860s: he strongly polemicised against Fran Levstik and rejected the poetry of Simon Gregorčič and Josip Stritar, as well as the circle around the literary journal Ljubljanski zvon. In 1878, he was elected the first president of the Slovene Writers' Association. Bibliography Kdo so bili Ambidravi, in kdo je sozidal starodavni mesti Virunum in Teurnia Kelti ali Venedi? V Celovcu : J. Leon, 1853 Mesec Marije, ali častenje presvete device Marije skoz eden celi mesec s vsakdanjimi premišljevanji, molitvami in izgledi iz živlenja svetnikov, ter z molitvami v jutro, večer, pri sv. maši, za spoved ino sv. obhajilo, kak tudi s kratkim opisom naj imenitnejših Marijinih svetstev, katere slovenski romarji obiskavajo. U Gradcu: J. Sirolla, 1856 Pannonica: spomeniški listi. Samozal. D. Trstenjak, 1887 Weriand de Graz: zgodovinsko-rodoslovna razprava. V Celovci : pisatelj, 1884 Triglav, mythologično raziskavanje. Samozal. D. Trstenjak, 1870 Slovanščina v romanščini. [Ponikva]: pisatelj, 1878 See also Old Slovenes Sources "Trstenjak, Davorin" in Slovenski biografski leksikon, edited by Izidor Cankar (Ljubljana: Zadružna gospodarska banka, 1925). Bogo Grafenauer, Struktura in tehnika zgodovinske vede (Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, 1980). External links Trstenjak's writings on history 1817 births 1890 deaths People from the Municipality of Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici 19th-century Slovenian historians Slovenian writers Slovenian philologists 19th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests Presidents of the Slovene Writers' Association Slovenian theologians 19th-century Austrian historians