Peter Pavel Glavar

Peter Pavel Glavar (2 May 1721 – 24 January 1784) was a Carniolan Roman Catholic priest, beekeeper, writer, and businessman.

Glavar was born in Ljubljana as an illegitimate child of the Maltese noble Pietro Giacomo de Testaferrata and a local servant. and became acquainted with the economic theories of the French physiocrats. His education was broad, and he was fluent in several European languages. Glavar was a supporter of poor students, Glavar edited the first Slovene-language parish family book, in which he recorded the actuarial data of the inhabitants of Komenda.

In 1766, Glavar bought Lanšprež Castle in Gomila near Mirna in the central Carniola,

Glavar died at Lanšprež Castle in 1784, aged 62. He left his assets to the poor; some of them were used to endow the Glavar Hospital in Komenda in 1804.