Mihály Szever Vanecsai
Slovenian writer
Mihály Szever Vanecsai, also known in Slovenian as Miháo Sever Vaneča or Miháo Sever z Vaneča (ca. 1699–1750) was a Hungarian Slovenian Lutheran priest, born in the village of Vanecsa (Vaslak or Vaneča) in the Prekmurje region. He died in Nemescsó.
In 1742 he wrote the book Réd zvelicsánsztva (Expectant Salvation), published in Germany in Halle on the Saale.
See also
List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
References
Anton Trstenjak: Slovencia na Ogrskem (Hungarian Slovenes), Maribor 2006.
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