The youngest daughter of polyhistor Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693), Regina Konstancija, whose married name was Dienersperg, had been recently rediscovered after having disappeared into oblivion ...for over a century; she was the only one of Valvasor's children to have grandchildren herself. While the family tree of her first daughter, Countess Paradeiser, died out in Carniola in 1823 the Styrian branch of her second daughter, mar. Dienersperg, had been continuing to the present. Her last descendant, who had lived in Slovenia, died a tragic death in 1941. The majority of Valvasor's descendants still live in Austria. Of his many talents and interests, they inheried primarily his love of uniform, with a number of officiers hacving served in different armies, but at least some of them also inherited the affinity for the written word. On the other hand, Valvasor's material legacy had already been lost in the first generation of his children. Among his descendants, the knowledge of their famous ancestor passed into oblivion relatively swiftly. Reprinted by permission of World Scientific Publishing
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