Primož Trubar (1508-1586) came into contact with humanistic ideas and the Reformation in Trieste under Bishop Pietro Bonomo. At the beginning of the 1530s he preached in the Slovene language in Ljubljana as vicar of Bishop Christophorus Rauber. Because of his turn to Protestantism, he was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1547 and went into exile in Germany. As a deacon in Rothenburg ob der Tauber he published the first book in Slovenian "Catechismus In der Windischenn Sprache" in 1550. 1553-1561, now a Protestant pastor in Kempten, he translated the New Testament from the Luther Bible into Slovenian. In 1567 he became parish priest in Derendingen near Tübingen, where he died in 1586. His grave in the St.-Gallus-Church is often visited by Slovenian groups, who honour in him the reformer and/or the founder of Slovenian literature. The coin shows him, who is also depicted on the Slovenian 1 euro coin, according to a bust by the Bosnian-Slovenian sculptor Mirsad Begič. |
