PRIMOŽ TRUBAR, a Slovene protestant priest, and the author of the first Slovene printed book
By ErasmusSp3
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1508
Birth
Trubar was born in the village Rašica. -
1524
Trieste
He was in Trieste under the tutorship of the Roman Catholic bishop Pietro Bonomo. There he got in touch with the Humanist writers, in particular Erasmus of Rotterdam -
1530
Ljubljana
He became a preacher in Ljubljana -
1547
Exile
He gradually leaned towards Protestantism and was expelled from Ljubljana. -
1550
The first books in Slovene
While he was Protestant preacher in Rothenburg, he wrote the first two books in Slovene, Catechismus and Abecedarium, -
Death
He died in Tübingen, Germany, where he is also buried.