Simon Knéfacz, or Simeon Knéfacz, alternative names ''Kniefacz, Šimon Knefac, Šimeon Kniefac'' (February 23, 1752 – August 3, 1819) was a Hungarian monk and
Burgenland Croatian
Burgenland Croatian (; german: Burgenländisch-Kroatisch, Burgenlandkroatisch, burgenlandkroatische Sprache, burgenländisch-kroatischen Sprache, hu, gradiscsei horvát nyelv) is a regional variety of the Chakavian dialect of Croatian spoken ...
writer.
Born in
Devínska Nová Ves
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near
Bratislava
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(originally Mátyás Knéfacz), died in
Klingenbach. He wrote three books in Burgenland Croatian. Knéfacz, along with
Lőrinc Bogovich,
Jeremiás Sosterich and
Godfried Palkovich played a role in the standardization of the Burgenland Croatian language in the 18th century.
Works
* Lapat evangeliumszki ''(Evangeliary),'' 1798
* Marianszko czvéche ''(Virgin's flower),'' 1803
* Vrata nebészka ''(Heavenly Gate),'' 1804
See also
*
Burgenland Croats
Burgenland Croats (, , , ) is the name for ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland, along with Croats in neighboring Hungary and Slovakia.
Around 320,000 residents of Austria identify as of Croat heritage; 56,785 have, as sole or mul ...
Literature
* Nikola Benčić: Književnost gradišćanskih Hrvata,
Zagreb
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1998.
* Ludwig Kuzmich: Kulturhistorische Aspekte der burgenlandkroatischen Druckwerke bis 1921 mit einer primären Bibliographie,
Eisenstadt
Eisenstadt (; hu, Kismarton; hr, Željezni grad; ; sl, Železno, Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ''Eisnstod'') is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It had a recorded population on 29 April 2021 of 15,074.
In the Habsburg ...
1992.
* Paul Jos. Šafařík's Geschichte der südslawischen Literatur, Verlag von Friedrich Tempsky 1864.
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External links
Das Auer Himmelstor 1857 - Cundravska Vrata nebeska
1752 births
1819 deaths
Burgenland Croats
Hungarian writers
Croatian writers
Hungarian Christian monks
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