Jurij Dalmatin
Carniolan minister and translator
Jurij Dalmatin (c. 1547 – 31 August 1589) was a Slovene Lutheran minister, reformer, writer, and translator. He translated the complete Bible into Slovene.
Life
Born in Krško, Dalmatin came from a Dalmatian family. Until the age of 18, he studied under the Protestant teacher and grammarian Adam Bohorič. Dalmatin next studied in Württemberg and Bebenhausen north of Tübingen. In August 1566 he entered the University of Tübingen, becoming a baccalarius in March 1569 and a magister in August 1569. He published his magisterial work De catholica et catholicis disputatio in 1572. These German studies were funded by Bohorič and the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar. Dalmatin became a preacher in Ljubljana in 1572.
He had a wife named Barbara, with whom he had four children: Janez, Katarina, Elizabeta, and Marko.
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