Miklós Küzmics (Slovene: Mikloš Küzmič; September 15, 1737 – April 11, 1804) was a Hungarian Slovene writer and translator.

Biography

Küzmics was born in Dolnji Slaveči and died in Kančevci. His parents were János and Erzsébet Küsmics ic He was trained as a school supervisor for the Slovene

Catholic school Catholic schools are Parochial school, parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest parochial schools, religious, no ...

s in

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; ) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarians in Slovenia, Hungarian minority, lying betwee ...

. Miklós Küzmics wrote the first bilingual textbook for the

Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian Slovenes ( Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', ) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes (, dialectically: ''vogrski Slovenci, bákerski Slovenci, porábsk ...

, entitled ''ABC knizsica narodni soul haszek'' (Elementary School Primer), which he translated from German into Hungarian and Slovene. This booklet, which contained the first Slovene-Hungarian dictionary, appeared in

Buda Buda (, ) is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the western bank of the Danube. Historically, “Buda” referred only to the royal walled city on Castle Hill (), which was constructed by Béla IV between 1247 and ...

in 1790. He also translated the four Gospels into

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 ...

. The book was printed in 1804 in

Szombathely } Szombathely (; ; also see #Etymology, names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by the streams ''Perint'' and '' ...

as ''Szvéti Evangyeliomi''. Although they had the same surname, Miklós Küzmics was not related to István Küzmics, the most important Protestant writer and educator of the

Works

* ''Krátká Summa Velikoga Katekizmussa'',

Sopron Sopron (; , ) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century In the Iron Age a hilltop settlement with a burial ground existed in the neighbourhood of Sopron-Várhely. When ...

1780 (Small Tenet of the Great Catechism) * '' Szvéti evangyeliomi'', 1780 (Holy Gospels) * ''Szlovenszki Silabikar'', 1780 (Slovene Service Book) * ''Pomoucs Beté'snih, Mirajoucsih'', 1781 * ''Kniga Molitvena, na haszek Szlovénszkegá národá'', 1783 (Prayer Book for the Slovene Nation) * ''ABC Kni'sicza na narodni soul haszek'', Büdin 1790 (The Alphabet Booklet in Favor of the Nationality Schools) * ''Sztárogá i nouvogá Testamentumé svéte histórie Kratke Summa'',

1796 (Small Tenet of the Holy Histories of the Old and New Testament)

References

* Mária Mukics (2003), "The Slovenians of Hungary", Changing World.
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