Adam Bohorič () ( – after 20 November 1598) was a
Slovene Protestant
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...
preacher, teacher and author of the first grammar of
Slovene.
Bohorič was born in the market town of Reichenburg in the
Duchy of Styria
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(now
Brestanica in
Slovenia
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). He studied in
Wittenberg
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under the supervision of
Philip Melanchthon.
In 1584, he wrote his most notable work
(English: Free Winter Hours).
The book, written in
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
, was the first grammar of Slovene and the first Slovene normative guide. It was adapted and republished as ''Grammatica latino-germanico-slavonica'' in 1715 by
Joannes Adamus Gaiger. In this work, Bohorič codified the first
Slovene alphabet, now called the
Bohorič alphabet. It was used up to the 1840s, when it was replaced by
Gaj's Latin alphabet
Gaj's Latin alphabet ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Gajeva latinica, separator=" / ", Гајева латиница}, ), also known as ( sr-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sr-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing all ...
.
See also
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Primož Trubar
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Jurij Dalmatin
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Sebastian Krelj
References
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1520s births
1590s deaths
16th-century Carniolan writers
16th-century linguists
16th-century Lutherans
Grammarians from Carniola
Carniolan Lutherans
People from the Urban Municipality of Krško