András Rogan sl, Andraš Rogan was a 17th-century Slovene

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priest in

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, in

Dokležovje Dokležovje (; hu, Murahely or ''Deklezs'',Engelke, Edda, & Mateja Čoh. 2011. ''"Jeder Flüchtling ist eine Schwächung der Volksdemokratie": die illegalen Überschreitungen am jugoslawisch-steirischen Grenzabschnitt in den Fünfzigerjahren.'' Vi ...

. It is likely that he was born in the upper Slovene March (

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur Ri ...

, Goričko). The surname ''Rogan'' is frequent near the municipalities of Rogašovci, Martinje, and

Tišina Tišina (; hu, Csendlak) is a town in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Tišina. The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and belongs to the Roman Catholic Dioc ...

. He likely studied in

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and

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. He was the priest of Dokležovje. In 1676, he compiled a manuscript of sermons, mostly transcriptions from the

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(with some

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words). The sermons originate from Anton Vramec's ''Postila'' from 1586. The Catholic

Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian Slovenes ( Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', hu, Magyarországi szlovének) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes ( sl, porabski Slovenci, dialecticall ...

in the 16th through 18th centuries used the Kajkavian form of Croatian.

Literature

* Tatjana Grah: Rokopisni vstavek Andreja Rogana v kajkavskem pridigarskem priročnikui - ''Postilli'' Antona Vramca, Stopinje 2007.

Literature

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