Mihály Bakos, also known in Slovene as Miháo Bakoš or Mihael Bakoš, ( 1742 – 9 April 1803) was a Hungarian Slovene

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priest, author, and educator. He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in the village of

Šalovci Šalovci (; ) is a village in the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Šalovci. The writer Mihály Bakos was born in the village. References External linksŠalovci on Geopedia
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, in the Habsburg

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, today in the

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region of

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. His parents were Ferenc Bakos and Éva Ábraham. In 1779, he became a pastor in Surd, then part of the County of Somogy (now in

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). In the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous Slovene families from the Slovene March settled in Somogy. Many of them were Lutheran, and so Slovene-language services were set up for them. Bakos' predecessor was

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, a Slovene writer that translated the

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into his local

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. Between 1784 and 1785, Bakos served as a pastor in

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(Hungarian ''Tótkeresztúr''), in

. He later returned to Somogy, where he served as the dean for Somogy and Zala counties. In 1791, he wrote the Slovene hymnal (Christian Hymnal).

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* Anton Trstenjak. 2006. ''Slovenci na Ogrskem'' ungarian Slovenes

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: Pokrajinski arhiv. Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary 18th-century Hungarian male writers 18th-century Hungarian writers Slovenian writers Slovenian Lutheran clergy 1740s births 1803 deaths People from Šalovci {{Slovenia-writer-stub

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