Johannes Tschandek ( sl, Janez Čandek or ''Janez Čandik'', also attested under several other names, 1581 – October 8, 1624) was a Carniolan priest, Jesuit, and religious writer. Tschandek was born in

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and attended school in

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. He became a Jesuit in 1600 and taught at the Jesuit lyceum in Ljubljana. In 1610 he relocated to Graz, where he studied theology until 1612. After completing his studies, he primarily worked in

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, Graz, and Ljubljana. Although Lutheranism had mostly been eradicated among the Slovenes by Tschandek's time, the publications created by the Slovene Protestants had nonetheless left an awareness of the need to instruct people in their vernacular language. The most important religious figure of this era in Slovenian territory was the bishop of Ljubljana,

Thomas Chrön Thomas Chrön ( sl, Tomaž Hren; November 13, 1560 – February 10, 1630) was a Carniolan Roman Catholic priest, bishop of Ljubljana, and patron of the arts.Rajhman, Jože, & Emilijan Cevc. 1990. Tomaž Hren. ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vo ...

. As bishop, he participated in destroying Protestant publications, razing their churches, and expelling Protestants, as well as having their corpses exhumed. Chrön was unable to realize his plan to publish a catechism, a prayer book, and a hymnal, and to establish a press, but he did succeed in having 3,000 copies of the book ''Evangelia inu lystuvi'' (Gospels and Epistles) published at his expense in Graz in 1613. This was based on

Jurij Dalmatin Jurij Dalmatin ( – 31 August 1589) was a Slovene Lutheran minister, reformer, writer and translator. He translated the complete Bible into Slovene. Life Born in Krško, Dalmatin came from a Dalmatian family. Until the age of 18, he studied ...

's Bible translation, but with expressions of foreign origin replaced with Slovene expressions. The work continued the Protestant linguistic heritage in Slovenian territory, and it was later reprinted eight times, always using the language of the Protestant text. In 1615, a Slovene translation of

Peter Canisius Peter Canisius ( nl, Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest. He became known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Swit ...

's ''Catechismus minor'' was published in Augsburg (titled ''Catechiſmus Petri Caniſij Soc. Iesv Th. Skusi malane Figure napréj poſtavlen'' 'The Little Catechism of Peter Canisius SJ Presented with Illustrations'). Both of these publications were prepared by Tschandek. Tschandek was one of the first Slovenian Catholic writers to write books in Slovene for Slovene priests.

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