Miklós Küzmics

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Miklós Küzmics (Slovene: Mikloš Küzmič) (around September 15, 1737 – April 11, 1804) was Catholic Hungarian Slovene writer and translator.

[edit] Biography

Küzmics was born in Dolnji Slaveči and died in Kančevci. He was trained as a school supervisor for the Slovene Catholic schools in Prekmurje. Miklós Küzmics wrote the first bilingual textbook for the Hungarian Slovenes, entitled ABC knizsica narodni soul haszek ("The Alphabet Booklet in Favor of the Nationality Schools"), which he translated from German into Hungarian and Slovene. This booklet, which contained the first Slovene-Hungarian dictionary, appeared in Buda in 1790.

Although they both bore the same family name, Miklós Küzmics was not in any way related to István Küzmics, the most important Protestant writer and educator of the Hungarian Slovenes in Prekmurje.

[edit] See also

• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary

[edit] References

• Mária Mukics (2003), "The Slovenians of Hungary", Changing World.