József Kossics, also known in Slovene as Jožef Košič (around October 9, 1788,

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– December 26, 1867,

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), was a Hungarian-

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n writer,

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priest, ethnologist, linguist, poet, and historian. Kossics was born in Bogojina, Moravske Toplice, then part of the

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, now in

. His father József Kossics was a teacher born in

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and his mother Ana Kregar was from a petty noble family. Kossics served as a priest in the first half of the 19th century in Alsószölnök and later in

(1829–1867) in Vas country. He was also a poet, linguist, historian, and ethnologist. He was a subscriber to the early Hungarian scholarly journal ''Tudományos gyűjtemény'' (Scientific Collection, 1817–1841). In 1828, his monograph on the

Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian Slovenes ( Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', hu, Magyarországi szlovének) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes ( sl, porabski Slovenci, dialectical ...

appeared in this journal, earning him respect in ethnological circles. Kossics continued to attentively follow developments in Hungarian science and culture. In his pursuit of promoting the special features of ethnic groups, he later became something of an activist. In 1837, he joined an appeal for a poem from every ethnic group living in the

to be read in the respective languages for the opening of the Hungarian National Theater in Pest. For this purpose, Kossics himself wrote a poem in his native Slovene and added a rough Hungarian translation. Kossics died in 1867 in

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* Mária Mukics: ''Changing World - The Hungarian Slovenes'' (''Változó Világ'' - ''A magyarországi szlovének'') Press Publica 1788 births 1867 deaths Ethnologists Hungarian male poets People from the Municipality of Moravske Toplice 19th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary 19th-century Hungarian poets 19th-century Hungarian male writers {{ethnologist-stub

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