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Jozef Roháček

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Born
  
February 6, 1877 (
1877-02-06
)
Stará Turá, na Jazvinách, u Dornákov,Austro-Hungarian Empire, (present-day Slovakia)

Citizenship
  
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia

Occupation
  
Lutheran priest, missionary, writer, editor

Known for
  
The first translation of Bible from original languages into Slovak language

Spouse(s)
  
Ružena Vraná from Tisovec

Died
  
28 July 1962, Bratislava, Slovakia

Jozef Roháček (February 6, 1877 − July 28, 1962) was a Slovak Protestant activist, evangelist and scholar.

He translated the Bible from original languages into Slovak. The first edition of the complete Lutheran Slovak Bible was edited by British and Foreign Bible Society in 1936. The revised edition was printed in Kutná Hora (Czech republic) in 1951.

Publications

  • Evolucionizmus vo svetle pravdy alebo čo má každý vzdelaný človek vedieť o evolucionizme (Evolutionism in the light of truth or what should every literate person know about evolutionism), Bratislava, Svetlo, 1936

    • References

    Jozef Roháček Wikipedia
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