Ethnicity Slovak Name Jozef Rohacek | Religion Lutheran Role Evangelist | |
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Born February 6, 1877 ( 1877-02-06 ) Stara Tura, na Jazvinach, u Dornakov,Austria-Hungary 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) Ruzena Vrana from Tisovec Died July 28, 1962, Bratislava, Slovakia |
Jozef Rohacek (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 Kutna Hora (Czech republic) in 1951.
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