István Küzmics

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Monument to Štefan Küzmič in his native village.
Monument to Štefan Küzmič in his native village.

István Küzmics also known in slovenian as Štefan or Števan Küzmič (around 1723, Štrukovci, Kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovenia - December 22, 1779, Surd, Hungary) was the most important Evangelical writer of the Slovenes in Hungary.

Born in the region of Prekmurje, in what was then Vas County, he studied and successfully graduated in the universities of Sopron, Győr and Pozsony. He later became a pastor and teacher in two Slovene speaking cities of Nemescsó (1751-1755) and Surd (1755-1779), in what is now Zala County, but was then part of Somogy, an area in which numerous Slovene families settled in the 17th and 18th century. He also wrote Cathechisms and schoolbooks and translated the New Testament in his local Prekmurian language; the translated text, entitled Nauvi zakon ali testamentom, was published in the German town of Halle in 1771.

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  • Mária Mukics: Changing World - The Hungarian Slovenes (Változó Világ - A magyarországi szlovének) Press Publica ISBN 1219 5235