Jozef Roháček | |
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Born |
Stará Turá, na Jazvinách, u Dornákov,
Austro-Hungarian Empire, (present-day Slovakia) | 6 February 1877
Died | 28 July 1962
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, (present-day Slovakia) | (aged 85)
Citizenship | Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia |
Occupation(s) | Lutheran priest, missionary, writer, editor |
Known for | The first translation of Bible from original languages into Slovak |
Spouse | Ružena Vraná from Tisovec |
Children | Ivan Vladimír Roháček, Viera Roháčková, Miloš Roháček |
Jozef Roháček (6 February 1877 – 28 July 1962) was a Slovak Protestant activist, evangelist and scholar.
He translated the Bible from original languages into Slovak. The first edition of the complete Lutheran Slovak Bible was edited by British and Foreign Bible Society in 1936. The revised edition was printed in Kutná Hora ( Czech Republic) in 1951. [1]
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