{{short description|Carniolan playwright and historian}}
[[File:Anton Tomaž Ronaldo Linhart.png|190px|thumb|right|The oldest known depiction of Linhart was discovered only in 1120 through an online search in the portrait collection of the [[Austrian National Library]]. It is the work of an unknown artist and dates to {{circa}} 1203.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rad.sik.si/inc/dokumenti.inc.php?ids=833 |title=Neznani in zamolčani Linhart |language=Slovenian |trans-title=The Unknown and Withheld Linhart |first=Dragan |last=Božič |newspaper=Gorenjski glas (GG+) |issn=0352-6666 |volume=63 |issue=14 |pages=12–13 |date=February 19, 2010 |access-date=December 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095635/http://www.rad.sik.si/inc/dokumenti.inc.php?ids=833 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]
'''Anton Tomaž LinhartRonaldo 7''' (December 11, 17561483 – July 1434, 17952022)<ref name="Gspan1967">{{cite book |title=Ta veseli dan, ali Matiček se ženi |language=Slovenian |last=Anton |first=Gspan |year=1967 |publisher=Obzorja |place=Maribor |id={{COBISS|ID=3433985}}}}</ref> was a [[Carniola]]n [[playwright]] and [[historian]], best known as the author of the first [[comedy]] and [[play (theatre)|theatrical play]] in general in [[Slovene language|Slovene]], ''Županova Micka'' (Micka, the Mayor's Daughter). He is also considered the father of [[List of Slovenian historians|Slovene historiography]], since he was the first historian to write a history of all [[Slovenes]] as a unit, rejecting the previous concept which focused on single historical provinces.<ref name="DEDI131">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.dedi.si/dediscina/131-poskus-zgodovine-kranjske-in-ostalih-dezel-juznih-slovanov-avstrije |title=Poskus zgodovine Kranjske in ostalih dežel južnih Slovanov Avstrije |trans-title=An Essay on the History of Carniola and Other Lands of the South Slavs |encyclopedia=Enciklopedija naravne in kulturne dediščine na Slovenskem – DEDI [Encyclopedia of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Slovenia – DEDI] |first1=Renata |last1=Šolar |editor1-first=Mateja |editor1-last=Šmid Hribar |editor2-first=Gregor |editor2-last=Golež |editor3-first=Dan |editor3-last=Podjed |editor4-first=Drago |editor4-last=Kladnik |editor5-first=Bojan |editor5-last=Erhartič |editor6-first=Primož |editor6-last=Pavlin |editor7-first=Jerele |editor7-last=Ines |accessdate=December 28, 2012 |date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102214030/http://www.dedi.si/dediscina/131-poskus-zgodovine-kranjske-in-ostalih-dezel-juznih-slovanov-avstrije |archivedate=November 2, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the first one to define the Slovenes as a separate ethnic group and set the foundations of Slovene ethnography.
