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This doctoral dissertation is composed of three parts. The first part of the dissertation outlines Johann Ludwig Schönleben's life journey, which began on November 16th, 1618, in Ljubljana. Johann Ludwig Schönleben attended the Jesuit secondary school in Ljubljana from 1629/30 to 1634/35, and entered the Jesuit order on October 26th, 1635. During his schooling and monastic training from 1635 to 1653, he stayed and was active at various colleges within the Austrian Jesuit Province: in Vienna, Leoben, Graz, Krems, Linz, Passau, Judenburg, and Ljubljana. After completing his theology studies, he was ordained a priest in Vienna no later than November 1648, and then taught rhetoric at the Viennese Jesuit College during the 1648/49 academic year, while also working as a notary for the Faculty of Arts. He left Vienna for Judenburg, from there he went to Ljubljana in October 1650 to work as a school prefect. In October 1651 he left for Graz. During this time, he began to experience a crisis connected with his Jesuit mission, which is why he left for Linz after April 20th, 1652, and from there to Vienna. He taught logic at the Viennese Faculty of Arts during the 1652/53 academic year and was discharged from the order in September 1653. He then left for Padua, where he passed his doctoral exam in theology on December 19th, 1653. He returned to Ljubljana in the spring of 1654 and was appointed cathedral dean on May 6th, 1654. He remained in this position until July 3rd, 1667. Schönleben remained in Ljubljana until 1669. On October 13th, 1669, the emperor appointed him the archdeacon of Lower Carniola and parish priest in Ribnica. Despite difficulties, he stayed in Ribnica until the end of 1675 or the beginning of 1676. From 1676 to 1681, after returning to Ljubljana, he focused primarily on writing historical and genealogical works. He died on October 15th, 1681, in Ljubljana. The biographical part is followed by a comprehensive presentation of Schönleben's oeuvre. The section on Schönleben as a historian begins with a short overview of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historiography. The emphasis is on the presentation and evaluation of his printed works. His most important historical work Carniolia antiqua et nova is at the forefront, followed by his essay Aemona vindicata. Special attention is dedicated to two of his works that discuss the origins and grandeur of the House of Habsburg: Dissertatio polemica de prima origine augustissimae domus Habspurgo-Austriacae and Annus sanctus Habspurgo-Austriacus. The presentation of his printed works concludes with the genealogies of the Carniolan noble families Gallenberg, Ursini-Blagaj, Attems and Auersperg. An overview and outline of his works that have been preserved as manuscripts provides special insight into Schönleben's work as a historian. The dissertation concludes with a section on Schönleben as a man of letters, in which the main attention is dedicated to his early speeches from the Jesuit period and his sermon collections. The process of Schönleben maturing as a preacher is presented through three periods: his early period (1642-1653), his period of active preaching (1654-1676), and his period of decreased preaching activity (after 1676). Schönleben's preserved Jesuit speeches are presented and complemented by an inventory of lost speeches' the titles of which are, however, known. The main focus is on Schönleben's most active period as a preacher and the presentation of his four collections of sermons: Fasten-Freytag und Sonntag-Predigen, Feyertägliche Erquick-Stunden, Tractatus geminus de mysteriis Dominicae passionis, and Horae subsecivae dominicales. This section concludes by summarizing the main features of Schönleben's speeches and sermons, which define him as a representative of the gradual transition from the typical trends of post-Tridentine preaching principles to Baroque sermons. Schönleben relied primarily on the Jesuit preaching model.