Jozef Roháček (6 February 1877 – 28 July 1962) was a
Slovak Protestant
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...
activist, evangelist and scholar.
He translated the Bible from original languages into
Slovak. The first edition of the complete Lutheran
Slovak Bible was edited by
British and Foreign Bible Society
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The ...
in 1936. The revised edition was printed in
Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora (; ) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The history of Kutná Hora is linked to silver mining, which made it a rich and rapidly developing town. The centre of Kutná Hora, i ...
(
Czech Republic
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) in 1951.
Publications
*''Evolucionizmus vo svetle pravdy alebo čo má každý vzdelaný človek vedieť o evolucionizme (
Evolutionism
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in the light of truth or what should every literate person know about
evolutionism
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), Bratislava, Svetlo, 1936''
References
1877 births
1962 deaths
20th-century Christian biblical scholars
Czechoslovak activists
Czechoslovak religious leaders
European biblical scholars
Lutheran biblical scholars
People from Stará Turá
Slovak activists
Slovak evangelists
Slovak Lutherans
Slovak Christian clergy
20th-century Lutheran clergy
Translators of the Bible into Slovak
20th-century Slovak translators
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