PRIMOŽ TRUBAR, a Slovene protestant priest, and the author of the

1508

Birth

Trubar was born in the village Rašica.
1524

Trieste

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
1530

Ljubljana

He became a preacher in Ljubljana
1547

Exile

He gradually leaned towards Protestantism and was expelled from Ljubljana.
1550

The first books in Slovene

While he was Protestant preacher in Rothenburg, he wrote the first two books in Slovene, Catechismus and Abecedarium,
1586

Death

He died in Tübingen, Germany, where he is also buried.

Birth