Primož Trubar

Trubar (also Germanized as Primus Truber; born June 9, 1508 Rašica, now the town Veliki Lašče, Carniola, † June 28, 1586 in Derendingen in Tübingen) was a Protestant preacher and regarded as the founder of the Slovenian literature as well as the Protestant Church in Slovenia.

Life

He was educated in Rijeka (1520, twelve years old ) and Salzburg. In 1524 he went to Trieste at Bishop Pietro Bonomo, where he came in contact with humanistic ideas and in a later episode with the Reformation. 1527 he returned to the Carniola to become a pastor in Laak in Steinbrück. However, in 1528 he enrolled at the University of Vienna, she left in 1530 without a degree in order to take over a parish in Lasko.

Beginning of the 1530s - years came Trubar as one of probably four vicars of the Bishop Christof Rauber at the Ljubljana Cathedral of St. Nicholas, where he preached in the Slovene language. He approached gradually Protestantism to what brought him to the Ljubljana diocese in conflict, so that he had to rely on Bonomo's support. In 1540 he went so again to Trieste and then took over a parish in St. Barthelmä until he was excommunicated in 1547 by the Bishop of Ljubljana Textor, forcing him to go to Germany. He found refuge with the theologian Dietrich Veit in Nuremberg. By whose recommendation he got a job as a deacon in the Church of the Holy Spirit Hospital in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where he stayed from 1548 to 1552, in 1549 married his wife Barbara and his first son, Primus, the younger, was born. There he wrote the first book in Slovenian, published in 1550 to Tübingen under the German title catechism in the language Windish. Then he wrote there still his second work, Abecedarium, which was also printed.

He was from 1553 to 1561 at the Kempten St. Mang Church Protestant pastor and there translated the New Testament from the Luther Bible into Slovenian. At his suggestion Hans Ungnad taught in the pen Urach a print shop, where some of his writings and South Slavic translations of the New Testament were made ​​. In all, he published around 25 to 30 Slovenian books. In 1565 he was again expelled from Ljubljana and fled back to Germany, where am Neckar he took over the parish in Lauffen. Within a year there, he translated the Psalms. 1567 the exile was used as a parish priest in Derendingen at Tübingen, where he died in 1586.

His grave is still located in the local evangelical church of St. Gallus and is frequently visited by Slovenian groups that the Reformer and / or the voice founder honor in him. It was also named a street and the parish hall of the protestant church Derendingen to him in Tübingen - Derendingen. In the courtyard of Urach pin Truber a monument is erected.

Literary Figure

The Slovenian writer Drago Jančar refers in his short story " Fire " from the story collection " The appearance of Revenska " (2001) on an episode from his student days in Vienna Trubar. The young theology student ( Scholar ) describes in his employment as a university chronicle the events surrounding the public burning of a heretic ( Baptist ) condemned Balthasar Hubmair and is as it were a glimpse into his own future as a preacher, lawyer and influential representatives of the Reformation in Carniola ( Slovenia).

Monument

• His image is found on the normal one- euro coins intended for circulation (since 2007 ) and on the second two- euro commemorative coin of the Republic of Slovenia in the year 2008 and on the ten- Tolar bill of the former Slovenian currency (from 1992).
• In Ljubljana, the evangelical church is named after him. There is also a commemorative statue Trubar, another bust of Boris Kalin is located in Celje.