János Zsupánek
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János Zsupánek or Zsupanek (January 6, 1861 – March 11, 1951) was a Slovene writer and poet in Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, son of the poet and writer Mihály Zsupánek
Mihály Zsupánek
Mihály Zsupánek was a Slovene poet in Hungary, the father of János Zsupánek and grandfather of Vilmoš Županek.Born in Šalovci , his parents were Péter Zsupanek and Judit Tolvay. He fought in the Second Italian War of Independence and he participated in the battle of Solferino...

. His son Vilmos Zsupánek was also a writer and poet. The three Zsupáneks few old hymn not down for prosterity and wrote also new hymns and poems in Prekmurian language.

Zsupánek was born in Šalovci
Šalovci
Šalovci is a village and a municipality in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia.The writer Mihály Bakos was born in the village.-Demographics:Population by native language, 2002 census *...

. His mother was Mária Gomilár. Zsupánek was in few pilgrimage (Graz
Graz
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, Mariazell
Mariazell
Mariazell is a small city in Austria, in Styria, well known for winter sports, 143 km N. of Graz. It is picturesquely situated in the valley of the Salza, amid the north Styrian Alps....

, Maribor
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....

, Slovenske Gorice
Slovenske gorice
Slovenske gorice with an area of 1017 km2 is the largest hilly region of Slovenia, a smaller part is located in the Austrian province of Styria...

) and known to many German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

, Latin and Slovene (in Slovenske Gorice dialect, closely related of the Prekmurian) hymns.

Zsupánek wrote his first hymns in Hungarian. In 1908 he published his prayer book and hymnal Vu Iméni Ocsé, i Sziná, i Dühá, szvétoga Ámen (The Father Son and Holy Ghost). In 1910 he published a prekmurian mortuary hymnal, Mrtvecsne peszmi. The publishing supported Miklós Kovács and József Konkolics from Šalovci.

He died in Šalovci.

Works

  • Magyar dalok (1884-1893)
  • Vu iméni Ocsé, i Sziná, i Dühá, szvétoga Ámen (1908)
  • Mrtvecsne peszmi (1910)
  • Szenje blázsene device Marie (in the prekmurian Novine, 1916)

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