Prof. Dr. Branko Reisp was born on July 17, 1928 in Žiri. He graduated in history on the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts in 1959. He started his professional career in the library of the National Museum of Slovenia, which he led from 1964 to 1994. He lectured on the Department of history on University of Ljubljana in the years 1983-1989 and 1992-1997 on its Department for library sciences. His main research topic was the Slovene cultural history of the period from 16th to 19th century, and especially Johann Weichard Valvasor.
A bibliography of his publications for the period 1962-1998 is published following the article.