PRIMOŽ TRUBAR, a Slovene protestant priest, and the author of the first Slovene printed book
By ErasmusSp3
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Trubar was born in the village Rašica.
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He was in Trieste under the tutorship of the Roman Catholic bishop Pietro Bonomo. There he got in touch with the Humanist writers, in particular Erasmus of Rotterdam
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He became a preacher in Ljubljana
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He gradually leaned towards Protestantism and was expelled from Ljubljana.
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While he was Protestant preacher in Rothenburg, he wrote the first two books in Slovene, Catechismus and Abecedarium,
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He died in Tübingen, Germany, where he is also buried.