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Slovene protestant preacher and teacher
Memorial for Adam Bohorič in
Ljubljana
Arcticae horulae succisivae
Adam Bohorič (
pronunciation
ⓘ ) (
c. 1520 – after 20 November 1598) was a
Slovene
Protestant preacher, teacher and author of the first grammar of
Slovene .
[1]
Bohorič was born in the market town of Reichenburg in the
Duchy of Styria (now
Brestanica in
Slovenia ).
[2] He studied in
Wittenberg under the supervision of
Philip Melanchthon .
[3] In 1584, he wrote his most notable work,
Arcticae horulae succisivae (English: Free Winter Hours).
[4] The book, written in
Latin , was the first grammar of Slovene and the first Slovene normative guide. It was adapted and republished as Grammatica latino-germanico-slavonica in 1715 by
Joannes Adamus Gaiger . In this work, Bohorič codified the first
Slovene alphabet , now called the
Bohorič alphabet . It was used up to the 1840s, when it was replaced by
Gaj's Latin alphabet .
See also
References
^ Toporišič, J. 1987: Bohorič, Adam.
Enciklopedija Slovenije , Zv. 1, 303, Ljubljana.
COBISS
17411
^ Kidrič, Francè (1978).
"Izbrani spisi: France Kidrič [urednik Anton Ocvirk]. - France Kidrič, Inštitut za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede (Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti) - Google Knjige" . Retrieved 2012-09-21 .
^ Stefan Barbarič (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon ] (in Serbo-Croatian).
Novi Sad (
SAP Vojvodina ,
SR Serbia ):
Matica srpska . p. 43.
^ Bohorič, Adam (2008-04-30).
Zimske urice proste - Adam Bohorič, Jože Toporišič - Google Knjige .
ISBN
9788637702146 . Retrieved 2012-09-21 .
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