István Ballér
István Ballér or Balliér (Slovene: Števan Baler August 28, 1760 – April 2, 1835) was an ethnic Slovene Lutheran priest, dean of Zala and Somogy, and writer. He lived and worked in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Born in the Slovene Circumscription (Prekmurje) in the village of Lončarovci (then officially Gerőháza), he received his schooling in Őrség and Nemescsó and higher education in Sopron. He was successively cantor and teacher among the Somogy Slovenes in Kissomlyó and from 1784, in Porrogszentkirály, then from 1805 dean of the county.
Ballér strongly opposed the official replacement of the Prekmurian language by Hungarian in the 1830s. He wrote several hymns in the Prekmurian dialect of Slovene.
Literature
- Vili Kerčmar: Evangeličanska cerkev na Slovenskem, Murska Sobota 1995.
- Franc Šebjanič: Protestantsko gibanje panonskih Slovencev, Pomurska založba 1977.
See also
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