Mihály Kolossa
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Mihály Kolossa was a Slovene ploughman and writer 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...

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He was born in Puconci
Puconci
Puconci is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. Prior to 1920 it was known as Battyánd, Hungary.The majority of the population is Lutheran, making Puconci one of the few Slovenian municipalities where the majority of the population belongs to a non-Catholic denomination.There is a Lutheran...

, but his father was from Sebeborci
Sebeborci
Sebeborci is a village in the Moravske Toplice Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.-External links:*...

. Kolossa's mother, Éva Skrilec, was from Tešanovci
Tešanovci
Tešanovci is a village immediately to the east of Moravske Toplice in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.There is a small chapel in the village with a two storey belfry, built in the early 20th century.In Tešanovci was born writer Ferenc Novák....

. His wife was Terézia Fartély.

Kolossa and the notar of Puconci, Gergely Luthár
Gergely Luthár
Gergely Luthár was a Slovene landowner, notar and writer in Hungary.He was born in Sebeborci in Lutheran family, his parents János Luthár and Rozina Berke was petty noblemen...

, reworked and published the new issue of the Lutheran
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

 dead-hymnal Mrtvecsne peszmi in Prekmurian language in 1887. The origianal author of the book was István Szijjártó
István Szijjártó
István Szijjártó was a Slovenian evangelic teacher and poet in Hungary.He was born in Večeslavci , near the Styrian border. His father was Iván Szijjártó slovene peasant. Studied in Nemescsó and in Sopron, in the evangelic lyceum . At first, he was teacher in Križevci from 1787-1806 in Puconci...

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Kolossa died from Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

 and was buried in Sebeborci.

Literature

  • Ivan Škafar: Bibliografija prekmurskih tiskov od 1715 do 1919, Ljubljana
    Ljubljana
    Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

     1978.

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