József Szakovics, Slovene Jožef Sakovič, German orthography Joseph Sakowitsch (February 2, 1874, Vadarci (then known as Tivadarc, in what is now

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) – September 22, 1930, Alsószölnök,

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), was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest and author in the

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; ) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarians in Slovenia, Hungarian minority, lying betwee ...

region (then known in Hungarian as '' Vendvidék''). Szakovics was a defender of the linguistic rights of the

Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian Slovenes ( Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', ) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes (, dialectically: ''vogrski Slovenci, bákerski Slovenci, porábsk ...

and their Slovene identity, promoting the use of the

Prekmurje Slovene Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, Eastern Slovene, or Wendish (, , Prekmurje Slovene: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmörski jezik, panonska slovenščina''), is the language of Prekmurje in Easte ...

of Slovene. He was born in Vadarci (Tiborfa before 1919), then in the Hungarian half of

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, as the son of Hungarian Slovenes Mátyás Szakovics and Ilona Mácsek. He studied theology in

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, and was ordained as a priest on July 2, 1899. He served as a parish

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in Pápóc and a curate in

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. In 1900, he became a curate in Rechnitz in the region known today as

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, and later in Črenšovci (1901),

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(1902), Tišina (1905), and Weiden bei Rechnitz (1906). In 1906, he became a parish vicar in

Beltinci Beltinci (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Böltinci'', or ''Belatincz'', ) is a town in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Beltinci. Črnec Creek, a tributary of the Ledava, flows through the settlement. ...

, and in 1909 in Cankova. From 1909 to 1913 he served as a vicar in Alsószölnök, near

Szentgotthárd Szentgotthárd () is the westernmost town of Hungary. It is situated on the Rába River near the Austrian border. History The town took its name from, and grew up round, the Cistercian Szentgotthárd Abbey, founded here in 1183. In 1664, it was ...

, in an ethnically mixed area inhabited by

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, and

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. From 1913 to 1917, he was a vicar in Turnišče, and later the parish priest there until 1928. He died 1930 in Alsószölnök,

. In 1904, he revised the prayer-book by Miklós Küzmics (originally published in 1780). This prayer-book had five reprints in the following years and it has been used since by Slovene Catholic families in

. In 1918 Szakovics and other Slovene politicians ( József Klekl, Jószef Csárics,

Iván Bassa Iván Bassa Slovene ''Ivan Baša'' (11 April 1875 – 13 February 1931) Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, writer and politic. Born in Beltinci (in Prekmurje, then part of Hungary), his parents József Bassa and Anna Vucsko. Was consecrate on 16 ...

, and

István Kühár István Kühár () (August 28, 1887 – January 1, 1922) was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, politician, and writer in Hungary, and later in Yugoslavia. He was born in Gradišče, near Tišina, to József Kühár and Katalin Gombócz. His m ...

) worked out a program for an independent Slovene March. This was to have been an autonomous entity within Hungary, or independent country, or constituent of

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Works

* ''Molitvena kniga'' (1904) * '' Szvéti evangeliomi'' (1906,

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) * ''Katolicsanszki katekizmus z galvnimi zgodbami biblije za solare, I.-II. razreda'' (1907,

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) * ''Kniga molitvena bogábojecsim düsam dána'' (1909)

References

* Franc Kuzmič: Kulturno, duhovno in narodnostno poslanstvo Jožefa Sakoviča, Slovenski koledar 2006. Letopis Slovencev na Madžarskem,
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