Sándor Terplán

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Sándor Terplán (Slovene: Aleksander Terplan or Trpljan) (c. May 1, 1816 – March 18, 1858) was a Hungarian Lutheran priest and writer.

Terplán was born in the

Terplán's father Iván Terplan was a tailor and wine-merchant and estate manager of Baron Szaller in Ivanovci. His mother Zsuzsanna Berke was the aunt of writer Iván Berke and she was from noble family. Sándor Terplan studied in the elementary schools of Domanjševci and Szentgyörgyvölgy, in the Őrség region. From 1828 he studied in Kőszeg and also in Sopron, where he studied theology. In 1837 he got a scholarship and went to Vienna.

He started working as a chaplain in Puconci, near Murska Sobota. Later he lived in Szombathely, but in 1843 moved back to Puconci where he became the village's pastor in 1844. He died of illness at the age of 42.

Terplán did a lot for preservation of the identity of the local Slovenes. He was in contact with the

• Dvakrat 52 Bibliszke historia, 1847 Kőszeg
• Knige 'zoltárszke, 1848 Kőszeg
• Peszmi i réd, 1856 Graz
• Krszcsánsztva Ábéczé, 1869 Sopron

Scripts

• Agenda (Latin), December 1838
• Molitvi na rázlocsne potrebcsine, October 7, 1838.
• Molitvi pri Szprevájanyi i pokápanyi Mrtveczov, 1838
• Szpoved Betecznikov, 1849
• Betegek gyóntatása (Hungarian), 1849
• Kranken-Communion (German), October 7, 1849.
• Temetéskorra való imádságok (Hungarian), 1849

See also

• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary

References

• Anton Trstenjak: Slovenci na Ogrskem (Hungarian Slovenes),
  ISBN 961-6507-09-5