Miklós Küzmics 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...

 writer and translator.

Biography

Küzmics was born in Dolnji Slaveči

Dolnji Slaveči

Dolnji Slaveči is a village in the Municipality of Grad in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia.The Hungarian Slovene writer and translator Miklós Küzmics was born in the village in 1737.-External links:*...

 and died in Kančevci

Kančevci

Kančevci is a village in the Moravske Toplice Municipality in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.The Parish Church, built to the east of the main settlement, is dedicated to Saint Benedict. It is first mentioned in written sources dating to 1208. It has a single nave with a polygonal choir and was...

. His parents was János Küsmics (sic!) and Erzsébet Lev. He was trained as a school supervisor for the Slovene Catholic school

Catholic school

Catholic schools are maintained parochial schools or education ministries of the Catholic Church. the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system...

s in 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...

. Miklós Küzmics wrote the first bilingual textbook for the Hungarian Slovenes

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...

, entitled ABC knizsica narodni soul haszek ("The Alphabet Booklet in Favor of the Nationality Schools"), which he translated from German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 into Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 and Slovene. This booklet, which contained the first Slovene-Hungarian dictionary, appeared in Buda

Buda

For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's...

 in 1790.

He also translated the four Gospels into local dialect of Prekmurian language. The book was printed in 1804 in Szombathely

Szombathely

Szombathely is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria...

 with the title Szvéti Evangyeliomi.

Although they both bore the same family name, Miklós Küzmics was not in any way related to 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....

, the most important Protestant writer and educator of the Hungarian Slovenes

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...

 in 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...

.

His works

• Krátká Summa Velikoga Katekizmussa, 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...
  
   1780. (Small tenet of the Great Cathecism)
• Szvéti evangyeliomi, 1780. (Holy Gospels)
• Szlovenszki Silabikar, 1780. (Slovene service-book)
• Pomoucs Beté'snih, Mirajoucsih, 1781.
• Kniga Molitvena, na haszek Szlovénszkegá národá, 1783. (Prayer-book, behoof Slovene Nation)
• ABC Kni'sicza na narodni soul haszek, Büdin
  Buda
  For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's...
  
   1790. (The Alphabet Booklet in Favor of the Nationality Schools)
• Sztárogá i nouvogá Testamentumé svéte histórie Kratke Summa, Szombathely
  Szombathely
  Szombathely is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria...
  
  1796. (Small tenet Holy Historys of the Old and New Testament)