József Szakovics, Slovene Jožef Sakovič, German orthography Joseph Sakowitsch (February 2, 1874, Vadarci (then known as Tivadarc, in what is now

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) – September 22, 1930,

Alsószölnök Alsószölnök ( ger, Unterzemming, sl, Dolnji Senik, la, Zelnuk Inferior) is a village in Vas County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordere ...

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), was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest and author in the

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region (then known in Hungarian as '' Vendvidék''). Szakovics was a defender of the linguistic rights of the

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and their Slovene identity, promoting the use of the

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of Slovene. He was born in Vadarci (Tiborfa before 1919), then in the Hungarian half of

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, as the son of Hungarian Slovenes Mátyás Szakovics and Ilona Mácsek. He studied theology in

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, and was ordained as a priest on July 2, 1899. He served as a parish

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in Pápóc and a curate in

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. In 1900, he became a curate in Rechnitz in the region known today as

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, and later in

Črenšovci Črenšovci (; hu, Cserföld) is a settlement in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Črenšovci. Črnec Creek, a tributary of the Ledava, flows past the settlement. The parish church A p ...

(1901), Tótszentmárton (1902), Tišina (1905), and

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(1906). In 1906, he became a parish vicar in Beltinci, and in 1909 in Cankova. From 1909 to 1913 he served as a vicar in

, near

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, in an ethnically mixed area inhabited by

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, and Magyars. From 1913 to 1917, he was a vicar in Turnišče, and later the parish priest there until 1928. He died 1930 in Alsószölnök,

. In 1904, he revised the prayer-book by

Miklós Küzmics Miklós Küzmics (Slovene: Mikloš Küzmič; September 15, 1737 – April 11, 1804) was a Hungarian Slovene writer and translator. Biography Küzmics was born in Dolnji Slaveči and died in Kančevci. His parents were János and Erzsébet Küs ...

(originally published in 1780). This prayer-book had five reprints in the following years and it has been used since by Slovene Catholic families in

. In 1918 Szakovics and other Slovene politicians ( József Klekl, Jószef Csárics,

Iván Bassa Iván Bassa Slovene ''Ivan Baša'' (11 April 1875 – 13 February 1931) Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, writer and politic. Born in Beltinci (in Prekmurje, then part of Hungary), his parents József Bassa and Anna Vucsko. Was consecrate on 16 ...

, and István Kühár) worked out a program for an independent Slovene March. This was to have been an autonomous entity within Hungary, or independent country, or constituent of

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Works

* ''Molitvena kniga'' (1904) * '' Szvéti evangeliomi'' (1906, Bad Radkersburg) * ''Katolicsanszki katekizmus z galvnimi zgodbami biblije za solare, I.-II. razreda'' (1907,

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) * ''Kniga molitvena bogábojecsim düsam dána'' (1909)

References

* Franc Kuzmič: Kulturno, duhovno in narodnostno poslanstvo Jožefa Sakoviča, Slovenski koledar 2006. Letopis Slovencev na Madžarskem,
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