Dávid Novák () was a
Hungarian Slovene student and poet. Novák was the author of the first known poem written in
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 ...
, dating from 1771.
Born in
Sümeg into a Lutheran family, he studied at the Bratislava lyceum, where it was customary for the students to write in their native language. Novák's poem was called "Versus Vandalici" (Slovene Poem) and begins "Poszlühne da eszi proszim vasz GOSZPODA / ka bom vam jasz pravo od toda národa ...." The poem also mentions the
Battle of Saint Gotthard.
See also
*
List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
Literature
* Franci Just: Besede iz Porabja, beseda za Porabje, pregled slovstva pri porabskih Slovencih, Franc-Franc
Murska Sobota, 2003.
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Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary
18th-century births
19th-century deaths