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Jurij Dalmatin (c. 1547 - 1589) was a Slovene Protestant priest
Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
, writer
Writer

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 and translator.

Born in Krško
Krško

Kr?ko lies in the south-east part of Slovenia, where the Sava valley widens up into the vast Bre?i?ko - kr?ko polje.Kr?ko is known for Slovenia's one and only nuclear power plant, the Kr?ko Nuclear Power Plant....
, he became a preacher in Ljubljana
Ljubljana

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 in 1572. He was the author of several religious books, such as Karšanske lepe molitve ("Beautiful Christian Prayers", 1584), Ta kratki würtemberški katekizmus ("Short Württemberg Catechism", 1585) and Agenda (1589). However, his most important achievement is the complete translation of the Bible
Bible

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 into Slovene language.






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Jurij Dalmatin (c. 1547 - 1589) was a Slovene Protestant priest
Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
, writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 and translator.

Born in Krško
Krško

Kr?ko lies in the south-east part of Slovenia, where the Sava valley widens up into the vast Bre?i?ko - kr?ko polje.Kr?ko is known for Slovenia's one and only nuclear power plant, the Kr?ko Nuclear Power Plant....
, he became a preacher in Ljubljana
Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital city of Slovenia and its largest town. It is located in the center of the country and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants....
 in 1572. He was the author of several religious books, such as Karšanske lepe molitve ("Beautiful Christian Prayers", 1584), Ta kratki würtemberški katekizmus ("Short Württemberg Catechism", 1585) and Agenda (1589). However, his most important achievement is the complete translation of the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 into Slovene language. The original title of his integral translation was Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmacena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina ("Bible: Here Is the Whole Holy Scripture of the Old and the New Testament, Translated to Slovenian by Jurij Dalmatin"), and it was published in 1584, printed in the bohoricica script. The translation set the standard norm of the Slovenian literary language which held, with several innovations in vocabulary
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, up to the first half of the 19th century.

Dalmatin died in Ljubljana in 1589.

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