József Szakovics
Appearance
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József Szakovics,
Prekmurje dialect of Slovene
.
He was born in
Magyars. From 1913 to 1917, he was a vicar in Turnišče, and later the parish priest there until 1928. He died 1930 in Alsószölnök, Hungary
.
In 1904, he revised the prayer-book by Miklós Küzmics (originally published in 1780). This prayer-book had five reprints in the following years and it has been used since by Slovene Catholic families in Prekmurje.
In 1918 Szakovics and other Slovene politicians (József Klekl, Jószef Csárics, Iván Bassa, and István Kühár) worked out a program for an independent Slovene March. This was to have been an autonomous entity within Hungary, or independent country, or constituent of Yugoslavia.
Works
- Molitvena kniga (1904)
- Szvéti evangeliomi (1906, Bad Radkersburg)
- Katolicsanszki katekizmus z galvnimi zgodbami biblije za solare, I.-II. razreda (1907, Budapest)
- Kniga molitvena bogábojecsim düsam dána (1909)
See also
- List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
- Culture of Slovenia
- Roman Catholicism in Slovenia
- Roman Catholicism in Hungary
References
- Franc Kuzmič: Kulturno, duhovno in narodnostno poslanstvo Jožefa Sakoviča, Slovenski koledar 2006. Letopis Slovencev na Madžarskem, ISSN 0237-1480
- Vasi digitális könyvtár – Vasi egyházmegye
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