Mihály Bakos, also known in Slovene as Miháo Bakoš or Mihael Bakoš, ( 1742 – 9 April 1803) was a Hungarian Slovene

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priest, author, and educator. He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in the village of

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 ...

, in the Habsburg

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, today in the

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region of

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. His parents were Ferenc Bakos and Éva Ábraham. In 1779, he became a pastor in Surd, then part of the County of Somogy (now in

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). In the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous Slovene families from the Slovene March settled in Somogy. Many of them were Lutheran, and so Slovene-language services were set up for them. Bakos' predecessor was

István Küzmics István Küzmics (also known in Slovene as Štefan or Števan Küzmič, c.1723 – December 22, 1779) was the most important Lutheran writer of the Slovenes in Hungary. He was born at Strukovci, in the Prekmurje region of what was then Vas C ...

, a Slovene writer that translated the

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into his local Prekmurje dialect. Between 1784 and 1785, Bakos served as a pastor in Križevci (Hungarian ''Tótkeresztúr''), in

. He later returned to Somogy, where he served as the dean for Somogy and Zala counties. In 1791, he wrote the Slovene hymnal (Christian Hymnal).

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* Anton Trstenjak. 2006. ''Slovenci na Ogrskem'' ungarian Slovenes Maribor: Pokrajinski arhiv. Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary 18th-century Hungarian male writers Slovenian writers Slovenian Lutheran clergy 1740s births 1803 deaths People from Šalovci {{Slovenia-writer-stub

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