József Szakovics
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József Szakovics, Slovene
Slovenian language
Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...
Jožef Sakovič, German orthography Joseph Sakowitsch (February 2, 1874 – September 22, 1930), was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest and author in the Prekmurje
Prekmurje
Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...
region (then known in Hungarian as Vendvidék). Szakovics was a defender of the linguistic rights of the Hungarian Slovenes
Hungarian Slovenes
Hungarian Slovenes are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes in the Rába Valley in western Hungary between the town of Szentgotthárd and the borders with Slovenia and Austria. They speak the Prekmurje dialect of Slovene...
and their Slovene identity, promoting the use of the Prekmurian language of Slovenian.
He was born in Vadarci
Vadarci
Vadarci is a settlement in the Puconci Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.The writer József Szakovics was born in the settlement in 1874.-External links:*...
(Tiborfa before 1919), then in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
, as the son of Hungarian Slovenes Mátyás Szakovics and Ilona Mácsek. He studied theology in Szombathely
Szombathely
Szombathely is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria...
, and was consecrated as a priest on July 2, 1899. He served as a parish vicar
Vicar
In the broadest sense, a vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior . In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant...
in Pápóc
Pápoc
-Sightseeing for visitors: the old rotunda of Árpád age:In the village there is an old architectural heritage from the romanesque art: the old rotunda. It was built in the 13th century. The inner space consists of four apses surrounding a central circular space. The rotunda has two floors: the...
and a chaplain
Chaplain
Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...
in Zalaegerszeg
Zalaegerszeg
In 2001 Zalaegerszeg had 61,654 inhabitants . The distribution of religions were, 71.1% Roman Catholic, 3.8% Calvinist, 1.6% Lutheran, 11.6% Atheist .-Notable people:* Lajos Botfy , mayor...
. In 1900, he became a chaplain in Rechnitz
Rechnitz
Rechnitz is a municipality in Burgenland in the Oberwart district in Austria with a population of 3,133.- Geography :The municipality is located in southern Burgenland, on the border with Hungary, near Bozsok and Szombathely...
in the region known today as Burgenland
Burgenland
Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...
, and later in Črenšovci
Crenšovci
Črenšovci is a settlement and a municipality in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia.The Parish Church in Črenšovci is dedicated to The Holy Cross and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota...
(1901), Tótszentmárton
Tótszentmárton
Tótszentmárton is a village in Zala county, Hungary.-References:...
(1902), Tišina
Tišina
Tišina is a town and municipality in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. It has been an independent municipality since 1 January 1999...
(1905), and Weiden bei Rechnitz
Weiden bei Rechnitz
Weiden bei Rechnitz is a town in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in Austria....
(1906). In 1906, he became a parish vicar in Beltinci
Beltinci
Beltinci is a settlement and a municipality in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. The municipality has 8,256 inhabitants...
, and in 1909 in Cankova
Cankova
Cankova is a town and a municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.The area was originally a part of Murska Sobota municipality. In 1995, Cankova - Tišina municipality was formed, which existed until 1999 when Tišina seceded as a separate municipality, giving rise to today's demarcation.The...
. From 1909 to 1913 he served as a vicar in Alsószölnök, near Szentgotthárd
Szentgotthárd
Szentgotthárd is the westernmost town of Hungary. It is situated on the Rába River near the Austrian border, and is home to much of Hungary's small Slovene ethnic minority....
, in an ethnically mixed area inhabited by Germans
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
, Slovenes, and Magyars. From 1913 to 1917, he was a vicar in Turnišče
Turnišce
Turnišče is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. It is first mentioned in written documents dating to the 13th century. In 1524 it was granted market rights and town privileges in 1548....
, and later the parish priest there until 1928. He died 1930 in Alsószölnök, 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...
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In 1904, he revised the prayer-book of Miklós Küzmics
Miklós Küzmics
-Biography:Küzmics was born in Dolnji Slaveči and died in Kančevci. His parents was János Küsmics and Erzsébet Lev. He was trained as a school supervisor for the Slovene Catholic schools in Prekmurje...
(originally published in 1780). This prayer-book had five reprints in the following years and it has been used since by Slovenian Catholic families in Prekmurje
Prekmurje
Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...
.
In 1918 Szakovics and other Slovenian politicians (József Klekl
József Klekl (politician)
József Klekl Slovene Roman Catholic priest and politician in Hungary, writer, governor of the Slovene People's Party , later congressman in Belgrade...
, Jószef Csárics, Iván Bassa
Iván Bassa
Iván Bassa Slovene Ivan Baša Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, writer and politic.Born in Beltinci , his parents József Bassa and Anna Vucsko. Was consecrate on 16 July 1898. Chaplain in Sankt Martin an der Raab, Sveti Jurij, Rogašovci and Rechnitz...
and István Kühár
István Kühár
István Kühár Slovene Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer in Hungary, and later in Yugoslavia....
) worked out a program for an independent Slovene March
Slovene March (Kingdom of Hungary)
The Slovene March or Slovene krajina was the traditional denomination of the Slovene-speaking areas of the Vas and Zala County in the Kingdom of Hungary from the late 18th century until the Treaty of Trianon in 1919...
. This was to have been an autonomous entity within Hungary, or independent country, or constituent of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
.
Works
- Molitvena kniga (1904)
- Szveti evangeliomi (1906, Bad RadkersburgBad RadkersburgBad Radkersburg is a city in the southeast of the Austrian state of Styria and capital of the district of Radkersburg. It is located at an elevation of 208 m and covers an area of 2.17 km². Its population amounts to about 1,940 people...
) - Katolicsanszki katekizmus z galvnimi zgodbami biblije za solare, I.-II. razreda (1907, BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
) - Kniga molitvena bogábojecsim düsam dána (1909)
See also
- List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
- Culture of SloveniaCulture of SloveniaSlovenia's first book was printed by the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar . It was actually two books, Katekizem and Abecednik, which was published in 1550 in Tübingen, Germany....
- Roman Catholicism in SloveniaRoman Catholicism in SloveniaThe Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....
- Roman Catholicism in HungaryRoman Catholicism in HungaryThe Roman Catholic Church in Hungary is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....