SLOVENE PROVERBS THROUGH THE TIME
SLOVENE PROVERBS THROUGH THE TIME

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on Slovene researchers’ interest in Slovene proverbs from the Slovene Protestantism (about 1550) to the present time. The first proverbs are found in the written form already with the founder of the Slovene written language Primož Trubar. It was the grammarian Adam Bohorić, who first systematically included the proverbs in the first Slovene grammar book in 1568. The first collection of Slovene proverbs was prepared by Janez Mihelić, but it was lost already at the end of the 18th century. In the second half of the 19th century a lot of cultural workers collected Slovene proverbs at the same time as the words for The Dictionary of Slovene Language. But only Fran Kocbek published proverbs in a separate book in 1887. In the first half of the 20th century the most productive collector was Josip Saselj, who in 1934 added his own material to Kocbek’s collection. In the second half of the 20th century three publications were published by Stanko Prek (1972), Marija Makarović (1973) and Etbin Bojc (1974), the latter being the most important. The Institute of Slovene Ethnology is preparing a new up-dated publication. Unfortunately Slovene researchers have not yet dealt with this subject matter thoroughly.

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