Sándor Terplán ( sl, Aleksander Terplan or ''Trpljan'') (c. May 1, 1816 – March 18, 1858) was a Hungarian

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priest and writer. Terplán was born in the Ivanovci in the

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region in the

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, into a Hungarian Slovene Lutheran family. Several priests were born in his village, both Catholic and Lutheran, including littérateurs or gentilitial politicians, such as József Borovnják and Ferenc Ivanóczy. Terplán's father Iván Terplan was a tailor and wine-merchant and estate manager of Baron Szaller in Ivanovci. His mother Zsuzsanna Berke was the aunt of writer Iván Berke and she was from noble family. Sándor Terplan studied in the elementary schools of Domanjševci and Szentgyörgyvölgy, in the Őrség region. From 1828 he studied in

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 ...

and also in

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, where he studied theology. In 1837 he got a scholarship and went to

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. He started working as a chaplain in

Puconci Puconci (; in older sources also ''Pucinci'', hu, Battyánd, Prekmurje Slovene: ''Püconci'') is a town in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Puconci The Municipality of Puconci (; sl, Obči ...

, near

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. Later he lived in

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, but in 1843 moved back to Puconci where he became the village's pastor in 1844. He died of illness at the age of 42. Terplán did a lot for preservation of the identity of the local Slovenes. He was in contact with the murian littérateurs, such as

János Kardos János Kardos, also known in Slovene as Janoš Kardoš (around February 13, 1801 in Újtölgyes, Kingdom of Hungary, today Noršinci, Slovenia – August 12, 1875 in Őrihodos, Austria-Hungary, today Hodoš, Slovenia) was a Hungarian Slovenian L ...

and Rudolf Czipott (he also celebrated the funeral mass of the latter). His first works were two prayer books for burials and vigils (1838). A work of his about the hearing of the confessions of the sick, written in Hungarian and German, remains in manuscript. He also wrote a pupils' textbook and a psalms book. Several of his works were only published after his death.

Works

*Dvakrat 52 Bibliszke historia, 1847 Kőszeg *Knige 'zoltárszke, 1848 Kőszeg *Peszmi i réd, 1856 Graz *Krszcsánsztva Ábéczé, 1869 Sopron ;Scripts *Agenda (

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), December 1838 *Molitvi na rázlocsne potrebcsine, October 7, 1838. *Molitvi pri Szprevájanyi i pokápanyi Mrtveczov, 1838 *Szpoved Betecznikov, 1849 *Betegek gyóntatása ( Hungarian), 1849 *Kranken-Communion (

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), October 7, 1849. *Temetéskorra való imádságok (Hungarian), 1849

References

* Anton Trstenjak: Slovenci na Ogrskem ''(Hungarian Slovenes),'' Maribor 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Terplan Sandor 1816 births 1858 deaths People from the Municipality of Moravske Toplice Slovenian Lutheran clergy Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary Hungarian writers

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