János Fliszár (June 21, 1856 – June 21, 1947) was a Hungarian Slovenian

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...

 translator, poet, writer, journalist and teacher.

He was born in the village of Šalamenci

Šalamenci

Šalamenci is a village in the Puconci Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. The writer, poet and journalist János Fliszár was born in the village.-External links:*...

 (Salamon before 1919) in the Prekmurje

Prekmurje

Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...

 region of the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

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, his parents Miklós Fliszár and Ilona Zsibrik. From 1862 studied in the elementary school 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...

, and later in Nemescsó

Nemescsó

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 near Kőszeg

Koszeg

----Kőszeg is a town in Vas county, Hungary. The town is famous for its historical character.- History :The origins of the only free royal town in the historical garrison county of Vas go back to the third quarter of the 13th century...

. Until 1868 studied in the Evangelic

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

 Lyceum

Lyceum

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 of Sopron

Sopron

In 1910 Sopron had 33,932 inhabitants . Religions: 64.1% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Lutheran, 6.6% Jewish, 1.2% Calvinist, 0.3% other. In 2001 the city had 56,125 inhabitants...

,completing the studies there in June 1875. From October of the same year he worked as teacher in Križevci

Križevci, Gornji Petrovci

Križevci is a village in the municipality of Gornji Petrovci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. Its name is derived from a chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross that used to stand in the village, but was pulled down in the late 19th century. There is a large Lutheran church in the village, built in...

. Here he married to daughter of the writer János Berke in 1878 (she died in 1905).

In 1911 he retired and worked in Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota is a city in northeastern Slovenia. It is located in the eponymous municipality near the Mura River in the region of Prekmurje and is the regional capital.-Name:...

 on the Bank of the Mura March. Until 1923 he worked as the director of the Dormitory of Murska Sobota.

Fliszár wrote some poetry and translated the great Hungarian literary figures (János Arany

János Arany

János Arany , was a Hungarian journalist, writer, poet, and translator. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy, to mention his most famous works.-Biography:He was born in...

, Kálmán Mikszáth

Kálmán Mikszáth

Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó was a major Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician.-Biography:Mikszáth was born in Szklabonya, Upper Hungary into a family of the lesser nobility...

, Sándor Petőfi

Sándor Petofi

Sándor Petőfi , was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered as Hungary's national poet and he was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848...

, Mór Jókai

Mór Jókai

Mór Jókai , born Móric Jókay de Ásva , outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.-Early life:...

, etc.). The translation was published in the United States of America, in the newspaper Amerikanszki Szlovencov glász, issued by the Hungarian Slovenian and Prekmurian immigrants to the USA:

After the World War I

World War I

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, Fliszár lived in Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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, and supported radical Hungarian irredentism

Irredentism

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. He wrote the Wends-Hungarian and Hungarian-Wends Dictionary, what includes 50 thousand words.