Miklós Kovács (
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 ...
: ''Mikloš Kovač,'' sl, Nikolaj Kovač) (November 24, 1857 – November 23, 1937) was a
Hungarian Slovene
Hungarian Slovenes (Slovenian language, Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', hu, Magyarországi szlovének) are an indigenous peoples, autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovenes, Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Ráb ...
cantor and writer.
Born was in
Šalovci
Šalovci (; hu, Sal) is a village in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to ...
(
Prekmurje
Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur Ri ...
) in
Vas County of the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
. His parents were Mihály Kováts and Rozália Kováts. Although he was primarily engaged in farming, he also wrote songs, mostly religious ones. His hymnal was lost over time, as was the hymnal of his collaborator
József Konkolics József Konkolics ( sl, Jožef Konkolič) (March 12, 1861 – January 1, 1941) was a Hungarian Slovene writer and cantor, and an associate of Miklós Kovács. Both authors wrote a hymnal in the Prekmurje dialect, which has not survived.
Konkolics ...
.
János Zsupánek preserved some of their songs.
Konkolics and Kovács subsidized the publication of Zsupánek's book ''Mrtvecsne peszmi'' (Dirges) in 1910.
He died in Veliki Šalovci in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 unt ...
.
See also
*
List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
This is a list of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary.
A
* Imre Augustich
B
* József Bagáry
* Mária Bajzek Lukács
* Mihály Bakos
* István Ballér
* Irén Barbér
* Mihály Barla
* Iván Bassa
* József Bassa
* Balázs Berke
* Fe ...
*
Mihály Zsupánek
Mihály Zsupánek ( sl, Mihael Županek; 7 March 1830 – 19 January 1905 or 24 January 1898) was a Slovene poet in Hungary, the father of János Zsupánek and grandfather of Vilmoš Županek.
Born in Šalovci (Prekmurje), his parents were Pét ...
References
Slovenski biografski leksikon
1857 births
1937 deaths
People from Šalovci
Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary
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