Jozef Roháček
Jozef Roháček | |
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Born | Stará Turá, na Jazvinách, u Dornákov,
Lutheran priest, missionary, writer, editor | 6 February 1877
Known for | The first translation of Bible from original languages into Slovak |
Spouse | Ružena Vraná from Tisovec |
Children | Ivan Vladimír Roháček, Viera Roháčková, Miloš Roháček |
Jozef Roháček (6 February 1877 – 28 July 1962) was a
Protestant
activist, evangelist and scholar.
He translated the Bible from original languages into Slovak. The first edition of the complete Lutheran Slovak Bible was edited by British and Foreign Bible Society in 1936. The revised edition was printed in Kutná Hora (Czech Republic) in 1951.[1]
Publications
- Evolucionizmus vo svetle pravdy alebo čo má každý vzdelaný človek vedieť o evolucionizme (Evolutionism in the light of truth or what should every literate person know about evolutionism), Bratislava, Svetlo, 1936
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References
- ^ Holéczy, Daniel E. (1991). Životopisy – Kristína Royová, Jozef Roháček, Ružena Vraná, Viera Roháčková (in Slovak). Cicero. p. 42.