Jakab Szabár ( sl, Jakob Sabar;

Horvátzsidány Horvátzsidány ( hr, Hrvatski Židan) is a small village in Vas County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to t ...

, around 15 July 1802 or 1803 – Cserföld, 14 December 1863) was a writer and Roman Catholic priest. Szabár was a Hungarian Croat who wrote in the

Prekmurje dialect 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 ...

and Hungarian. He was born in Vas, near

Kőszeg Kőszeg (german: Güns, ; Slovak: ''Kysak'', sl, Kiseg, hr, Kiseg) is a town in Vas County, Hungary. The town is famous for its historical character. History The origins of the only free royal town in the historical garrison county of Vas ...

. His parents were József Szabár and Ilonka Csárics. Szabár went to school in Szombathely and Kőszeg. He was ordained in 1826 and was Ferenc Bernyák's curate in Vashidegkút for one year, and was then relocated by the bishopric to Bántornya. From 1833 to 1835, Szabár was a priest in Felsőszentbenedek, and for 21 years in Felsőlendva. Szabár mainly wrote religious works and supported

Magyarization Magyarization ( , also ''Hungarization'', ''Hungarianization''; hu, magyarosítás), after "Magyar"—the Hungarian autonym—was an assimilation or acculturation process by which non-Hungarian nationals living in Austro-Hungarian Transleithan ...

. His work ''Szveta krizsna pout'' (Way of the Cross) was written in the Prekmurje dialect.

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Anton Trstenjak Anton Trstenjak (8 January 1906 – 29 September 1996) was Slovene psychologist, theologian, and author. He is notable as a pioneer of Slovenian clinical psychology and was practicing his own Logotherapy-inspired psychotherapy. As author he wrot ...

: Slovenci na Ogrskem ''(Hungarian Slovenians),''

Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...

, 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Szabar, Jakab 1800s births 1863 deaths People from Vas County 19th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests Austro-Hungarian writers Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary Hungarian writers 19th-century Hungarian people 19th-century Slovenian people

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