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PRIMOŽ TRUBAR, a Slovene protestant priest, and the author of the first Slovene printed book

  • 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.