János Murkovics ( sl, Janez Murkovič,

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 ...

: ''Janoš Murkovič,'' December 23, 1839 – April 15, 1917) was Slovene teacher, musician, and writer in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

. He was born near Ljutomer, in Bučkovci. He studied in

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. In 1862 he relocated to Beltinci, at that time in Hungary. In 1871 wrote the school primer ''Abecednik''; this was the first

book written in the

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. Murkovics worked in

Trbovlje Trbovlje (; german: Trifail''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 58.) is Slovenia's tenth-largest town, and the seat of the Municipality ...

from 1878 to 1880, and by 1880 was in Hungary again, in

Lendava Lendava (; formerly ''Dolnja Lendava'', in older sources also ''Dolenja Lendava''; hu, Lendva, formerly ''Alsólendva''; german: Lindau, formerly ''Unter-Limbach'') is a town in Slovenia in the region of Prekmurje. It is the seat of the Municip ...

. In 1910, he retired in Lendavske Gorice, where he later died.

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Zgodovina šole v Beltincih
* Pokrajinski muzej Murska Sobota, ''Katalog stalne razstave,''

Murska Sobota Murska Sobota (, Slovenian abbreviation: ''MS'' ; german: Olsnitz;''Radkersburg und Luttenberg'' (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut. hu, Muraszombat) is a town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the centre of the ...

1997.
''Slovenski biografski leksikon'': Murkovič Janez
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murkovics, Janos Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary Slovenian educators 1839 births 1917 deaths People from the Municipality of Ljutomer People from Lendava Slovenian writers Slovenian musicians

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