On Reformation Day, Slovenia remembers literary language pioneers

Five hundred years have passed since the birth of Bohorič, who originates from Brestanica, and who worked as teacher in Krško and Ljubljana after finishing his education in Vienna and Wittenberg.

In Wittenberg, the Slovenian Protestant preacher and teacher was educated by the German Lutheran reformer Philip Melanchthon, who was also a theologian, philosopher and linguist.

Later on, Bohorič ran a private Latin school in Krško, with Jurij Dalmatin, the first translator of the Bible into Slovenian, being one of his students, and also headed a Protestant school in Ljubljana.

Bogdan Dolenc, a professor at the Ljubljana Faculty of Theology, told the STA that the career paths of Bohorič and Trubar (1508-1586), the author of the first Slovenian language printed book, were very different.

Bohorič was not a priest, but a very educated teacher, but him and...

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