Péter Kollár Slovene

Slovenian language

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 Peter Kolar (18 June 1855 – 31 December 1908) Hungarian Slovenian

Hungarian Slovenes

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 Roman Catholic priest and writer.

Born in Ratkovci

Ratkovci

Ratkovci is a small village in the Moravske Toplice Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. It is the birthplace of the Hungarian Slovenian priest and writer Péter Kollár....

 (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...

), his parents were Péter Kollár and Judit Zselezen. He Was consecrated in 13 July 1882. He was chaplain 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...

 until 1885 later parish clerk in Bogojina

Bogojina

Bogojina is a village to the east of Murska Sobota in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. It lies in the Municipality of Moravske Toplice.It is best known for its parish church, dedicated to the Ascension of Jesus, which was built between 1925 and 1927 and furnished in the 1950s according to plans...

. In 1885-1887 he was chaplain in Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

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, after that he spent one year in Beltinci

Beltinci

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, one year in Turnišče

Turnišce

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. By 1900 he became priest of Beltinci.

In 1897 wrote a biblical coursebook in Slovenian language.

Works

• Mála biblia z-kejpami ali zgodba zvelicsanya za málo decsiczo : za I-II razréd normálszke sôle piszana po Gerely Józsefi ; z-27 z-leszá pritisznyenimi kejpmi od G. Morelli. – Budapest, Szent István Társulat, 1897.
• Mála biblia z-kejpami ali zgodba zvelicsanya za málo decsiczo : za I-II razréd normálszke sôle piszana po Gerely Józsefi ; z-27 z-leszá pritisznyenimi kejpmi od G. Morelli. - 2. natiszk. Budapest, Szent István Társulat, 1898.
• Návuk odpotrdjenyá ali férme. Z-vogrszkoga velikoga katekizmusa na sztári szlovenszki jezik obernyeni po Kollár Petri beltinszkom plebánusi 1902.