Jurij Japelj, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jurij Japelj

Slovenian philologist

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1744

Place of Birth: Kamnik, Osrednjeslovenska Statistical Region, Slovenia

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1807

Profession: poet, Catholic priest, translator, Catholic bishop, linguist, Bible translator

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Jurij Japelj

  • Jurij Japelj, also known in German as Georg Japel, (11 April 1744 – 11 October 1807) was a Slovene Jesuit priest, translator, and philologist.
  • He was part of the Zois circle, a group of Carniolan scholars and intellectuals that were instrumental in the spread of Enlightenment ideas in the Slovene Lands.
  • His translations of the Bible, based on the 16th-century translation of the Lutheran author Jurij Dalmatin, set the basis for the development of modern standard Slovene.

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