Antun Dalmatin

Antun Aleksandrović Dalmatin (Latin: Antonius Dalmata ab Alexandro)[2] was 16th century translator and publisher of Protestant liturgical books.

Antun Aleksandrović Dalmatin
The first page of 1561 Cyrillic work "Tabla za Dicu", a translation of Primož Trubar's "Primer" by Antun Dalmatin
Born
probably Senj
Died1597[1]
Ljubljana,[2] Habsburg Monarchy
Other namesAntonius Dalmata ab Alexandro

Name and early life

Antun's surname is an exonym which means "of Dalmatia".[3] Dalmatin was probably from Senj.[4]

South Slavic Bible Institute

The South Slavic Bible Institute[5] (German: Südslawische Bibelanstalt)[6] was established in Urach (modern-day Bad Urach) in January 1561 by Baron Hans von Ungnad, who was its owner and patron.[7] Within the institute Ungnad set up a press which he referred to as "the Slovene, Croatian and Cyrillic press" (German: Windische, Chrabatische und Cirulische Trukherey).[7] The manager and supervisor of the institute was Primož Trubar.[7] The books they printed at this press were planned to be used throughout the entire territory populated by South Slavs between the Soča River, the Black Sea,[8] and Constantinople.[9] For this task, Trubar engaged Stjepan Konzul Istranin and Antun Dalmatin as translators for Croatian and Serbian.[10] The Cyrillic text was responsibility of Antun Dalmatin.[11]

Language used by Dalmatin and Istranin was based on northern-Chakavian dialect with elements of Shtokavian and Ikavian.[12] People from the institute, including Trubar, were not satisfied with translations of Dalmatin and Istranin.[12] Trubar and two of them exchanged heated correspondence about correctness of the language two of them used even before the first edition translated by Dalmatin and Istranin was published and immediately after it.[13] For long time they tried to engage certain Dimitrije Serb to help them, but without success.[14] Eventually, they managed to engage two Serbian Orthodox priests, Jovan Maleševac from Ottoman Bosnia and Matija Popović from Ottoman Serbia.[14]

See also

References
  1. Posset 2013, p. 24.
  2. Marković, Furunović & Radić 2000, p. 44.
  3. Society 1918, p. 89.
  4. Липатов 1987, p. 195.
  5. Betz 2007, p. 54.
  6. Vorndran 1977, p. 8.
  7. Society 1990, p. 243.
  8. Črnja 1978, p. 117.
  9. Klaić 1974, p. 71.
  10. Lubotsky, Schaeken & Wiedenhof 2008, p. 280.
  11. Društvo 1972, p. 595.
  12. Mošin & Pop-Atanasov 2002, p. 18.
  13. štamparija 1922, p. 261.
  14. Матица 1976, p. 112.

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