János Kardos, also known in Slovene as Janoš Kardoš (around February 13, 1801 – August 12, 1875) was a Hungarian Slovenian

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priest, teacher, and writer. He was born in Újtölgyes,

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, today Noršinci,

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. He worked, lived and died in Őrihodos,

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, today Hodoš, Slovenia, in what was then known as the Slovene March and is today referred to as

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. After finishing studies in

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, he returned to his homeland and wrote and translated several ecclesiastical books and schoolbooks. Kardos was the first to translate works by Hungarian writers and poets from Hungarian into the

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. Among others, he translated works by

Sándor Petőfi Sándor Petőfi ( []; né Petrovics; ; ; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and Classical Liberalism, liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungari ...

, János Arany, Mór Jókai, Sándor Kisfaludy, and Mihály Vörösmarty.

Works

* ''D. Luther Martina máli kátekismus ali glavni návuk szvéte vere krsztsanszke'' (Martin Luther's Little Catechism, or the Main Tenet of the Holy Christian Religion, 1837) * ''Krátki návuk krsztsansztva'' (Little Tenet of Christianity, 1837) * ''Mála historia bibliszka ali Sz. Píszma Mêsta prígodna'' (Little History of the Bible, 1840) * ''Krsztsanszke czerkevne peszmi'' (Christian Hymns, 1848) * ''Krsztsanszke mrtvecsne peszmi'' (Christian Dirges, 1848) * ''Mrtvecsne nôve molitvi'' (New Prayers for the Dead, manuscript 1850) *'' Pobo'zne molítvi za poszebno csészt bo'zo'' (1853) * ''Krsztsanszke mrtvecsne peszmi'' (1855) * ''ABC ali Návuk na píszajôcs-cstenyé za szlovenszke vucsevnice vödáni'' (Primer for Writing and Reading for Slovene Scholars, 1867) * ''D. Luther Martina máli kátekismus ali glavni návuk szvéte vere krsztsanszke'' (1875) * ''Krsztsanszke czerkevne peszmi'' (1875) * ''D. Luther Martina Máli kátekismus ali Glávni návuk szvéte vere krsztsanszke'' (1902) * ''Krsztsanszke czerkevne peszmi'' (1908) * ''Toldi: versusko pripovedávanje'' (Toldi: A Rhyming Narrative, 1921) * Moses i Josua (Moses and Joshua, 1926–1927), published in the Lutheran periodical ''Düševni list'' * ''Krsztsanszke mrtvecsne peszmi'' (1929) * ''Evangeliomszke vere ino cérkvi obcsinszki prigodi'' (1932)

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