István Szmodis

István Szmodis (Slovene: Števan Smodiš, born 1758) was a Slovene Lutheran priest and writer.

He was born in Liszó, Somogy (today Zala county). His parents had migrated from the Slovene Circumscription (Slovenska okroglina, today Prekmurje). He worked as a teacher in Nemescsó. His consecration for the chaplaincy was March 24, 1787 in Puconci and by 1792 he was working in Hodoš.

On July 25, 1792, he arrived in Bodonci. The date of his death is unknown or uncertain. He wrote hymns and a sermon in the Prekmurian language.

Literature

• Evangeličanska cerkvena občina Bodonci
• Vili Kerčmar: Evangeličanska cerkev na Slovenskem, Murska Sobota 1995.

See also

• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary

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