József Borovnyák or Borovnják was a Slovene or Prekmurian

Prekmurians

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 writer, politician and Roman Catholic

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 priest in Hungary

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Borovnják was born in the village of Ivanócz (later Alsószentbenedek, Slovenian

Slovenian language

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 Ivanovci). His family was originally Protestant. His father converted to Catholicism.

Borovnják first served as a priest from 1851 to 1852 at the Istvánfalvian Church

Church of St. Stephen Harding in Apátistvánfalva

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 in the village of Apátistvánfalva

Apátistvánfalva

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 (Vas Country

Vas

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). He was later a priest in Felsőlendva

Grad, Slovenia

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 and Cankova

Cankova

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 (where he died).

Borovnják was a defender of the local Wendish dialect of Prekmurje. He wrote books in it, for example a catechism and prayer-books. In 1877 he posthumously reprinted Miklós Küzmics

Miklós Küzmics

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' Prekmurian translation of the gospels. He was also a political trouble-shooter.

Works

• Jezus moje poslenje (Jesus is my desire),
• Veliki katekizmus (Great Catechism)
• Kniga molitvena sztara szlovenszka (Old-Slovene Prayer-book)
• Dühovna hrana (The house of the soul)
• Máli politicsni vodnik (Small political mirror)
• Szvéti Angel Csuvár (Holy Guardian Angel)