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Trubar Primož
(1508—1586)

Primož Trubar was a Slovene protestant reformer, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands, a consolidator of the Slovene language and the author of the first Slovene printed book.

Trubar was born in the village Raščica near the present-day town of Velike Lašče, then under the Habsburgs. In the years 1520-1521 he attended school in Rijeka, in 1522-1524 he continued his education in Salzburg. From there he went to Trieste under the tutorship of bishop Pietro Bonomo, where he got in touch with the Humanist writers, in particular Erasmus of Rotterdam. In 1528 he enrolled at the University of Vienna, but did not complete his studies. In 1530 he returned to Slovenia and became a preacher. He gradually leaned towards the Protestantism and was in 1547 expelled from Ljubljana.

While a Protestant preacher in Rothenburg, Germany, he wrote the first book in Slovene, Catechismus and Abecedarium, which was published in 1550 in Tübingen, Germany. In the following years, he authored around 25 more books in Slovenian; the most important of them is the translation of the complete New Testament, which he started while living in Kempten im Allgäu.

Trubar died in Derendingen, Germany (now part of the city of Tübingen), where he is also buried.

Slovenia, 2007, Coins

Slovenia, 2008, Primož Trubar and the Catechism

Yugoslavia, 1951, Primož Trubar

Slovenia, 2008.01.29, Velike Lasce. Primož Trubar