Gergely Luthár (

Prekmurje Slovene Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, East Slovene, or Wendish ( sl, prekmurščina, prekmursko narečje, hu, vend nyelv, muravidéki nyelv, Prekmurje dialect: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmör ...

: ''Gergel Lutar,'' sl, Gregor Lutar, February 18, 1841 Sebeborci – March 12, 1925 Sebeborci) was a Slovene landowner, notary, and writer in

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. He was born in

Sebeborci Sebeborci (; hu, Szentbibor, Prekmurje Slovene: ''Seböborci'') is a village in the Municipality of Moravske Toplice in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ...

to a

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family. His parents János Luthár and Rozina Berke (from

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) were petty nobility. He attended school in

Puconci Puconci (; in older sources also ''Pucinci'', hu, Battyánd, Prekmurje Slovene: ''Püconci'') is a town in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Puconci The Municipality of Puconci (; sl, Obči ...

and married Anna Obál in

Tešanovci Tešanovci (; hu, Mezővár) is a village immediately east of Moravske Toplice in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Eur ...

. Luthár was the notary of Puconci, and he retired in 1887. Luthár and

Mihály Kolossa Mihály Kolossa ( sl, Mihael Kološa; September 21, 1846 – September 3, 1906) was a Slovene ploughman and writer in Hungary. He was born in Puconci, his father was from Sebeborci, and mother, Éva Skrilec, was from Tešanovci. His wife was ...

reworked and published in a new version of István Szijjártó's ''Mrtvecsne peszmi'' (Dirges) in

, titled ''Mrtvecsne peszmi stere szo szti sztári piszm vküp pobráne, pobougsane ino na haszek szlovenszkoga národa zdaj obdrügics na szvetlost dáne po Luthár Gergelyi i Kolossa Mihályi Szembiborczi sztoécsiva'' (Dirges, Which Are All Old Songs Gathered Together, Improved, and Republished for the Benefit of the Slovenian People by Gergely Luthár and Mihály Kolossa in Sebeborci, 1887). He died in Sebeborci.

Literature

* Ivan Škafar: Bibliografija prekmurskih tiskov od 1715 do 1919,

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1978.

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