Adam Bohorič () ( – after 20 November 1598) was a Slovene

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preacher, teacher and author of the first grammar of Slovene. Bohorič was born in the market town of Reichenburg in the Duchy of Styria (now

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). He studied in

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under the supervision of

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. In 1584, he wrote his most notable work, (English: Free Winter Hours). The book, written in

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, was the first grammar of Slovene and the first Slovene normative guide. It was adapted and republished as ''Grammatica latino-germanico-slavonica'' in 1715 by Joannes Adamus Gaiger. In this work, Bohorič codified the first

Slovene alphabet The Slovene alphabet ( sl, slovenska abeceda, or ''slovenska gajica'' ) is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene. The standard language uses a Latin alphabet which is a slight modification of the Croatian Gaj's Latin alphabet, ...

, now called the

Bohorič alphabet The Bohorič alphabet ( sl, bohoričica) was an orthography used for Slovene between the 16th and 19th centuries. Origins Its name is derived from Adam Bohorič, who codified the alphabet in his book ''Articae Horulae Succisivae''. It was print ...

. It was used up to the 1840s, when it was replaced by

Gaj's Latin alphabet Gaj's Latin alphabet ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Gajeva latinica, separator=" / ", Гајева латиница}, ), also known as ( sh-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sh-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing Serb ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bohoric, Adam 1520s births 1590s deaths 16th-century Carniolan writers 16th-century linguists 16th-century Lutherans Grammarians from Carniola Carniolan Lutherans People from the Municipality of Krško

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