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Sebastian Krelj, also known as Sebastjan Krelj, Sebastijan Krelj or Boštjan Krelj (1538 – 25 December 1567) was a Slovene Protestant reformer, writer, pastor, linguist and preacher and regarded as one of the most educated Slovene Protestants of the 16th century.
Sebastian Krelj, also known as Sebastjan Krelj, Sebastijan Krelj or Boštjan Krelj (1538 – 25 December 1567) was a Slovene Protestant reformer, writer, pastor, linguist and preacher and regarded as one of the most educated Slovene Protestants of the 16th century.
Life and work
Krelj was born inVipava Vipava can refer to:
* Vipava, Vipava, town in southwestern Slovenia
* Vipava (river), in Slovenia and Italy
* Vipava Valley
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, then part of the Duchy of Carniola. He studied at University of Jena and became a follower of the Lutheran preacher and writer Primož Trubar, the leader of the Protestant Reformation in the Slovene Lands, whom he assisted as a preacher in Ljubljana. In 1565, he became superintendent of the Carniolan Protestant Church in Ljubljana. Already at the time of assuming the position, he was suffering from tuberculosis and on Christmas two years later died from it, leaving behind a widow and a child.
Krelj had a wide linguistic and philologic knowledge: besides Slovene, German
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and Latin, he knew Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Croatian and Glagolitic literature. Krelj put the central dialect into context of dialects spoken by Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...
ns, the inhabitants of the Vipava Valley and Lower Carniolans. He introduced some changes to the Latin script originally adopted by Trubar from the German. He consistently differentiated the phonemes /s/ /z/ /t͡s/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /t͡ʃ/ /t͡ɕ/ /ə/ (written by Krelj as ', modern orthography '). His reforms were taken up by Jurij Dalmatin in the first translation of the entire Bible to the Slovene.Logar, Janez. 1932. "Krelj, Sebastijan." In: Franc Ksaver Lukman et al. (eds.), ''Slovenski biografski leksikon'', vol. 4, ''Kocen–Lužar''. Ljubljana: Zadružna gospodarska banka. In 1583, they were codified by Adam Bohorič
Adam Bohorič () ( – after 20 November 1598) was a Slovene Protestant preacher, teacher and author of the first grammar of Slovene.
Bohorič was born in the market town of Reichenburg in the Duchy of Styria (now Brestanica in Slov ...
in his grammar book .
References
1538 births 1567 deaths 16th-century Carniolan writers 16th-century linguists 16th-century Lutheran clergy Carniolan philologists Carniolan Lutherans Slovenian Lutheran clergy Protestant Reformers Translators of the Bible into Slovene People from Vipava, Vipava University of Jena alumni 16th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Slovenia {{bible-translator-stub