Mihály Gáber (; – September 13, 1815) was a
Slovene Roman Catholic priest, a writer, and the best friend of
Miklós Küzmics. Küzmics standardized
Prekmurje Slovene
Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, Eastern Slovene, or Wendish (, , Prekmurje Slovene: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmörski jezik, panonska slovenščina''), is the language of Prekmurje in Easte ...
with Gáber's help.
Gáber was born in
Dolnji Slaveči and became friends with Küzmics in his childhood. He was ordained a priest in 1777 in
Szombathely
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. In September and December that year he served as an administrator in
Pertoča, and in 1778 and 1779 he was a curate in
Gornji Petrovci. He served as the parish priest of
Martjanci until his death.
Gáber assisted Küzmics's literary efforts. Küzmics wrote the first Catholic books in the Prekmurje dialect and tried to use less foreign (primarily
Kajkavian
Kajkavian is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Č ...
) words. Through Gáber, many elements from the dialect used in the Parish of Martjanci were transferred to the standard language.
János Szily, the Bishop of Szombathely, encouraged the pair to
translate the Bible.
Gáber also wrote some Catholic hymns in the Prekmurje dialect.
See also
*
List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
This is a list of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary.
A
* Imre Augustich
B
* József Bagáry
* Mária Bajzek Lukács
* Mihály Bakos
* István Ballér
* Irén Barbér
* Mihály Barla
* Iván Bassa
* József Bassa
* Balázs Berke
* ...
Literature
* Géfin Gyula: ''A szombathelyi egyházmegye története III''. (1935)
*
Jožef Smej: ''Martjanska župnija v perspektivi 600 let''.
Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary
19th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests
1750s births
1815 deaths
People from the Municipality of Grad
18th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests
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