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Primo Trubar ( June 9, 1508 - June 28, 1586) was a Slovene Protestant reformer, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of Slovenia, a consolidator of the Slovene language and the author of the first printed book in Slovene.Trubar was born in the village Raica (or Racica, Racca or Rastcica ) near Velike Lace , Slovenia. In the years 1520- 1521 he visited a school in Rijeka, in 1522- 1524Events March 1, 1524/ 5 Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. April 30 Battle of the Sesia Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy defeat the French army in Italy under William de Bonnivet. The French, now commanded by Francois de St. Pol, wi he continued his education in SalzburgThis page is for the city of Salzburg. For the surrounding state of Salzburg, see: Salzburg (state Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). The geogra. From there he went to TriesteFor Auguste Piccard's deep-sea submersible Trieste see Bathyscaphe Trieste. Trieste ( Latin Tergeste Slovenian and Croatian Trst German Triest is a city in northeastern Italy, capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and Trieste province, population 211,18 under the tutorship of bishop Pietro Bonomo , where he got in touch with the Humanist writers, in particular Erasmus of Rotterdam. In 1528Events June 19 Battle of Landriano A French army in Italy under Marshal St. Pol is decisively defeated. November 6 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot on Texas. Andrea Doria revolts agai he enrolled at University of ViennaThe University of Vienna ( German: Universitat Wien was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina''. It is the largest university in Austria and the oldest German-speaking university in the world. Nobel-prize winners who taught a, but did not complete his studies. In 1530Events June 25 Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. August 12 Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Orange. The Medici are restored in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de Medici. Knights of he returned to Slovenia and became a preacher. He gradually leaned towards the ProtestantismProtestantism in the strict sense of the word is the group of princes and imperial cities who, at the diet of Speyer in 1529, tried a protestation against the Edict of Worms which forbade the Lutheran teachings within the Holy Roman Empire. From there, th and was in 1547 expelled from Ljubljana. While a protestant preacher in Rothenburg , Bavaria, Germany, he wrote the first book in Slovene, Catechismus and Abecedarium, which was published in 1550 in Tübingen, Germany. In the following years, he authored around 25 more books in Slovene, the most important of them is the translation of the complete New Testament.
Trubar died in Derendingen, Germany (now part of the city Tübingen), where he is also buried.
Recently a TV series was produced where Trubar was performed by popular Slovene theatre and movie actor Polde Bibic .
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