Mátyás Krajczár

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Krajczár's hymnal.

Mátyás Krajczár (Prekmurian and Slovene: Matjaš Krajcar) (1876–1958) was a Hungarian Slovene writer in the village Permise (Kétvölgy).

His parents were Slovene Roman Catholic peasants. In 1895 he wrote his hymnal in manuscript with prekmurian death hymns. Many hymns are adapted from old hymnals, including from József Gosztony. At the burials, or near the roadside crosses beside singing the hymns.

In the 1950s the communists deported Krajczár to Hortobágy. In 1956 he returned. In 1958 he died; his tomb is in the Apátistvánfalva cemetery.

Literature

Vilko Novak: Prekmurske rokopisne pesmarice, Jezik in slovstvo 6/7, Slavistično društvo Slovenije 1974.

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Name	Krajczar, Matyas
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Date of birth	1876
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Date of death	1958
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