István Zsemlics or Zsemlits ( or ) (around July 9, 1840 – November 10, 1891) was a Slovene author and Roman Catholic

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 priest.

He was born in Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

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 in the region Prekmurje

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, in what was the Vas county

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 of the Kingdom of Hungary

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 in the Austrian Empire

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. Hist parents József Zsemlits shoemaker and Anna Karlovics. Between 1864 and 1868 he served as chaplain in Beltinci

Beltinci

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 , and later as parish

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 priest in Alsószölnök  and in Gornja Lendava (in Hungarian Felsőlendva, now Grad, Slovenia

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) from 1887 to his died in 1891.

In 1871, he wrote the book Návuk od szvétogá potrdjenyá szvesztva, which was published in Graz

Graz

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, Duchy of Styria

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.

Sources

• Anton Trstenjak: Slovenci na Ogrskem (Slovenes in Hungary), Maribor 2006. ISBN 961 6507 09 5