
Miklóš Legén () was a
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 ...
Slovene teacher in Mártyáncz,
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...
(today
Martjanci
Martjanci (; , Prekmurje Slovene: ''Marčanci'' or ''Merčonci'') is a village between Murska Sobota and Moravske Toplice in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.
It is known for its parish church dedicated to Saint Martin, from which the village ge ...
,
Slovenia
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...
) in the
Slovene March in the 17th and 18th centuries.
In 1710 he added his signature to the old Martjanci hymnal. The hymnal is the first
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 ...
work, dating from the 16th century, and it was later added to by various writers. Legén also wrote a few hymns in Prekmurje Slovene and completed the hymnal.
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
* Vilko Novak, ''Martjanska pesmarica,'' Založba ZRC. 1997. Ljubljana,
Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary
17th-century births
18th-century deaths
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