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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
UDC 929 Trubar P.: 252;316.3”15”
Fanika Kranjc-Vrečko
The anthropological content of Trubar’s dedications and forewords
With careful observation and examination of his environment Trubar
described the Slovenes in their fundamental anthropological characteristics.
He recognized the problem of language as a medium of cultural maturing; the
need for religious affiliation and the individual’s willingness to engage actively
in religious education and ceremonial, even at the cost of persecution. He
pointed out how Slovenes lagged behind compared with other European
nations, as without God’s Word in their own language they were even more
subject to oppression. He saw the solution in raising his nation in religious
and cultural terms. In his dedications he informed foreign and native addres-
sees of his endeavours to raise people on the cultural level – with books and
through these to advance the individual’s religious development, which for
him as a preacher was his fundamental mission. Trubar’s dedicatees were not
only members of the upper class, from whom he expected help and material
support, but also simple individuals or a group of people from his own
surroundings, and in this way he showed an awareness of his calling and his
responsibility for the religious and general cultural growth of his own nation.
UDC 929 Trubar P.(031)
Dušan Voglar
Primož Trubar in encyclopedias and lexicons
A survey of entries about Primož Trubar in Slovene and foreign encyclo-
pedias and lexicons shows that from the first treatment of Trubar in J. J.
Valvasor’s work (1689), Slovene reference works have consistently taken account
of Trubar. Many foreign lexicons do likewise, and this was true even in the
second half of the 19th century, for which the researcher L. T. Elze, for example,
deserves praise. But surprisingly, Trubar does not appear in the Encyclopedia
Britannica nor in Larousse. The entries vary in how exhaustive they are, certain
important details are lacking in some of them, while others could have a more
suitable selection of books mentioned; some give incorrect data; others could
concentrate on Trubar’s more essential characteristics and omit less essential
ones. But in general, his establishing of the Slovene standard language is
emphasized in all the entries. In terms of excellent professional quality and
exhaustive treatment, the entries on Trubar in Slovenski biografski leksikon
(Slovenian Biographical Dictionary), Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (Encyclopedia of
Yugoslavia) and Enciklopedija Slovenije (Encyclopedia of Slovenia) attract special
attention. These scientifically conceived corpora, in comparison with other
reference works, which are often more “handy”, are the central Slovene reference
332
UDC 929 Trubar P.: 252;316.3”15”
Fanika Kranjc-Vrečko
The anthropological content of Trubar’s dedications and forewords
With careful observation and examination of his environment Trubar
described the Slovenes in their fundamental anthropological characteristics.
He recognized the problem of language as a medium of cultural maturing; the
need for religious affiliation and the individual’s willingness to engage actively
in religious education and ceremonial, even at the cost of persecution. He
pointed out how Slovenes lagged behind compared with other European
nations, as without God’s Word in their own language they were even more
subject to oppression. He saw the solution in raising his nation in religious
and cultural terms. In his dedications he informed foreign and native addres-
sees of his endeavours to raise people on the cultural level – with books and
through these to advance the individual’s religious development, which for
him as a preacher was his fundamental mission. Trubar’s dedicatees were not
only members of the upper class, from whom he expected help and material
support, but also simple individuals or a group of people from his own
surroundings, and in this way he showed an awareness of his calling and his
responsibility for the religious and general cultural growth of his own nation.
UDC 929 Trubar P.(031)
Dušan Voglar
Primož Trubar in encyclopedias and lexicons
A survey of entries about Primož Trubar in Slovene and foreign encyclo-
pedias and lexicons shows that from the first treatment of Trubar in J. J.
Valvasor’s work (1689), Slovene reference works have consistently taken account
of Trubar. Many foreign lexicons do likewise, and this was true even in the
second half of the 19th century, for which the researcher L. T. Elze, for example,
deserves praise. But surprisingly, Trubar does not appear in the Encyclopedia
Britannica nor in Larousse. The entries vary in how exhaustive they are, certain
important details are lacking in some of them, while others could have a more
suitable selection of books mentioned; some give incorrect data; others could
concentrate on Trubar’s more essential characteristics and omit less essential
ones. But in general, his establishing of the Slovene standard language is
emphasized in all the entries. In terms of excellent professional quality and
exhaustive treatment, the entries on Trubar in Slovenski biografski leksikon
(Slovenian Biographical Dictionary), Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (Encyclopedia of
Yugoslavia) and Enciklopedija Slovenije (Encyclopedia of Slovenia) attract special
attention. These scientifically conceived corpora, in comparison with other
reference works, which are often more “handy”, are the central Slovene reference
332
