Ferenc Berke (a. 1764 – February 10, 1841) was a Hungarian Slovene

Hungarian Slovenes

Hungarian Slovenes are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes in the Rába Valley in western Hungary between the town of Szentgotthárd and the borders with Slovenia and Austria. They speak the Prekmurje dialect of Slovene...

 Lutheran

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 pastor and writer.

Born in Sembiborci (Sebeborci

Sebeborci

Sebeborci is a village in the Moravske Toplice Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.-External links:*...

) the son of Iván Berke and Juditka Novák. His parents was petty noblemen. In Nemescsó

Nemescsó

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 attended the elementary school, by 1778 in Bratislava

Bratislava

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 the lutheran lyceum. Three years studied in Jena

Jena

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Since 1790 in Križevci and different villages was pastor. By October 14, 1805 is the priest of Puconci

Puconci

Puconci is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. Prior to 1920 it was known as Battyánd, Hungary.The majority of the population is Lutheran, making Puconci one of the few Slovenian municipalities where the majority of the population belongs to a non-Catholic denomination.There is a Lutheran...

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Berke and Mátyás Godina

Mátyás Godina

Mátyás Godina Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer and teacher in Hungary.Born in Lemerje, his family was of minor nobility. He went to school in Surd in Somogy county, where he lived and worked with two Slovene littérateurs István Küzmics and Mihály Bakos...

 was published the second issue of the prekmurian New Testament

New Testament

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 Nouvi Zákon

Nouvi Zákon

The Nouvi Zákon is the most famous work of the Hungarian Slovene writer István Küzmics. The Nouvi Zákon is the translation of the Holy Gospel into the Prekmurje dialect...

of István Küzmics

István Küzmics

István Küzmics also known in Slovenian as Štefan or Števan Küzmič was the most important Lutheran writer of the Slovenes in Hungary....

. In 1829 sanction to the György Czipott

György Czipott

György Czipott Slovene Juri Cipot, Prekmurian Djürji Cipott was a Slovenian evangelic pastor, teacher and writer in Hungary. His son Rudolf Czipott was a writer....

's prayer-book Dühovni áldov.

Literature

• Vili Kerčmar: Evangeličanska cerkev na Slovenskem, Murska Sobota
  Murska Sobota
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   1995.