Mihály Kolossa (; September 21, 1846 – September 3, 1906) was a Slovene ploughman and writer in

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much 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 south, Croatia and ...

. He was born in Puconci, his father was from Sebeborci, and mother, Éva Skrilec, was from Tešanovci. His wife was Terézia Fartély. Kolossa and the notary of Puconci,

Gergely Luthár Gergely Luthár (Prekmurje Slovene: ''Gergel Lutar,'' February 18, 1841 Sebeborci – March 12, 1925 Sebeborci) was a Slovene landowner, notary, and writer in Hungary. He was born in Sebeborci to a Lutheran family. His parents János Luthár a ...

, reworked and published the new issue of the

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

collection of dirges ''Mrtvecsne peszmi'' in the

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 ...

in 1887. The original author of the book was István Szijjártó. Kolossa died from

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

and was buried in Sebeborci.

Literature

* Ivan Škafar: Bibliografija prekmurskih tiskov od 1715 do 1919,

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1978.

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