Johann Ludwig Schönleben
Johann Ludwig Schönleben was a Carniolan priest, rhetorician, and historian.
Schönleben was born in Ljubljana, the son of the politician Ludwig Schönleben and his wife Suzane Kušlan. The family originally stemmed from Württemberg. He attended the Jesuit college in Ljubljana and joined the order on October 15, 1635. Schönleben studied in Vienna, Graz, and Passau. He left the Jesuit order in 1653, received a doctorate in Padua, and then returned to Ljubljana.
Schönleben was a well-known rhetorician and some of his speeches were also published. He was important in theology as a proponent of the Immaculate Conception. As a historian, he wrote a series of genealogies of Carniolan noble families. His most important work was Carniolia antiqua et nova. He was the teacher of Johann Weikhard von Valvasor.
Schönleben died in Ljubljana and was buried in St. James's Church.
