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Primož Trubar (
9 June 1508 –
28 June 1586) was a
Slovene protestant reformer, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the
Slovene Lands, a consolidator of the
Slovene language and the author of the first Slovene
printed book.
Trubar was born in the village
Rašica near the present-day town of
Velike Lašče, then under the
Habsburgs. In the years 1520-1521 he attended school in
Rijeka, in 1522-1524 he continued his education in
Salzburg. From there he went to
Trieste under the tutorship of bishop
Pietro Bonomo, where he got in touch with the
Humanist writers, in particular
Erasmus of Rotterdam. In 1528 he enrolled at the
University of Vienna, but didn't complete his studies. In 1530 he returned to Slovenia and became a preacher. He gradually leaned towards the
Protestantism and was in 1547 expelled from
Ljubljana.
While a Protestant preacher in
Rothenburg,
Germany, he wrote the first book in Slovene,
Catechismus and
Abecedarium, which was published in 1550 in
Tübingen, Germany. In the following years, he authored around 25 more books in Slovenian; the most important of them is the translation of the complete
New Testament, which he started while living in
Kempten im Allgäu.
Trubar died in
Derendingen, Germany (now part of the city of Tübingen), where he's also buried.
In 1986, the Slovenian television produced a
TV series, directed by
Andrej Strojan with the screen play written by
Drago Jančar, in which Trubar was played by the Slovenian actor
Polde Bibič.
Trubar was commemorated on the
10 tolar banknote (External Link
) in 1992, and on the
Slovenian 1 euro coin in 2007. The 500th anniversary of his birth will be marked in June 2008 by the issue of a
commemorative €2 coin.
An exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Primož Trubar, and the achievements of the Slovenian Reformation Movement is on display at the
National Museum of Slovenia, 6 March - 31 December 2008.
The Trubar Forum is working to put Trubar's Catechism (1550), the first printed Slovene book, into modern Slovene. It will go to print in the fall of 2008.
Trubar's legacy among Slovenes can't be overstated. Many say Slovenia wouldn't exist as a nation were it not for Trubar's love for his people and their language. A German priest recently called Trubar one of the first "Europeans," for his broad understanding of and work for the people groups on central Europe. But rarely is the question asked, "Why?". Why did Trubar do what he did? What were his motives to bring education, literacy, books and self-awareness to his small people group? We find the answer to that in the first sentence of the first book:
"To all Slovenes; grace, peace, mercy and the true knowledge of God through Jesus Christ I pray."
Trubar did what he did so everyone, even peasant girls, could have that true knowledge of God.
On the 1 euro coin is printed Trubar's classic phrase "Stati inu obstati," "Stand and Withstand." But this phrase is today often taken out of context to mean that we must stand firm in our own strength or that we must believe in something, anything. In actuality, the phrase comes from the "Sermon on Faith" from the 1550 Catechism:
"With this faith the Christian can, in troubles and temptations, stand and withstand..."Further Information
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