Primož Trubar

Primož Trubar (1508–1586) was born at Rašica in Carniola. After schooling in Salzburg and Trieste he served as a preacher in Ljubljana from 1530, gradually embracing Lutheran teaching until his expulsion in 1547.

In exile at Rothenburg he wrote the first books printed in Slovene, the Catechismus and Abecedarium of 1550, basing his written language on the speech of Ljubljana. As first superintendent of the Carniolan Protestant Church he published his Slovene New Testament in three parts by 1577. He wrote twenty-two books in Slovene and died in 1586, having helped establish the language's literary form.