Die Textvorlagen der protestantischen burgenländischkroatischen Kantionale von Grgur Mekini
The Textual Sources of the Burgenland-Croatian Hymnals by Grgur Mekinić
Author(s): Peter DrewsSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Historical Linguistics, Croatian Literature, Hungarian Literature
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: Early Baroque literature; Hymnology; Croatia; Germany; Hungary;
Summary/Abstract: The study traces the sources of the orst Croatian Protestant hymnal edited by the Lutheran priest Grgur Mekini in 1609 and 1611 and intended for parishes in the Austro- Hungarian border region. It depends for more than 90% on hymnaries compiled in Nuremberg around 1600, but to a small amount also on the Hungarian book of hymns published by Imre Újfalvi in 1602, and avoids any theologically controversial issue between Lutherans and the Reformed Churches. The authors of the texts are mainly Protestants from Saxony, Brandenburg and Bohemia, namely Martin luther, Michael Weisse, Nikolaus herman and Johann habermann. The translations aim orst of all at rendering the originals in the most exact and understandable form, while aesthetics play only a minor role.
Journal: Germanoslavica
- Issue Year: XXXIV/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 1-32
- Page Count: 32
- Language: German
- Content File-PDF
