Jeannette Ipavec Čampa

Marija Ana Ivana Ipavec, also known as Jeannette Ipavec Čampa and Ivanka Ipavska, (5 May 1817 – 30 April 1911) was a Slovenian landowner and poet. She was one of the first bourgeois women Slovenian-language poets. Her father was the Slovenian physician (1776–1858) from Gradac, while her mother was the Austrian pianist and harpist Katarina Schweighofer (1794–1865) from an impoverished noble family of Vienna, who would calm patients during her husband's operations by playing the piano. The local elite often gathered in their house for her mother’s musical recitals. She inherited musical talent from her mother and often sung or played piano with her. She spoke six languages: in addition to Slovene, she also knew French, Croatian, Hungarian, Latin and German. Some of her poems were set to music by her brother Benjamin and by the composer . In 1845 she married the lawyer Alojz Čampa (1817–1887) from Celje. She taught her daughters music and singing. She was a supporting member of . When her daughters Marija and Amalija retired around 1908, they moved in with her and cared for her until her death. She was buried in the Šentjur cemetery, in the grave where her parents and her husband had already been buried before her.