Mihály Kolossa ( sl, Mihael Kološa; September 21, 1846 – September 3, 1906) was a
Slovene ploughman and writer in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.
He was born in
Puconci, his father was from
Sebeborci, and mother, Éva Skrilec, was from
Tešanovci. His wife was Terézia Fartély.
Kolossa and the notary of Puconci,
Gergely Luthár, reworked and published the new issue of the
Lutheran
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...
collection of dirges ''Mrtvecsne peszmi'' in the
Prekmurje dialect in 1887. The original author of the book was
István Szijjártó.
Kolossa died from
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, i ...
and was buried in Sebeborci.
Literature
* Ivan Škafar: Bibliografija prekmurskih tiskov od 1715 do 1919,
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...
1978.
See also
*
List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
This is a list of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary.
A
* Imre Augustich
B
* József Bagáry
* Mária Bajzek Lukács
* Mihály Bakos
* István Ballér
* Irén Barbér
* Mihály Barla
* Iván Bassa
* József Bassa
* Balázs Berke
* ...
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Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary
1846 births
1906 deaths
People from Puconci