Jozef Roháček

Jozef Roháček
Born(1877-02-06)6 February 1877
Stará Turá, na Jazvinách, u Dornákov, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (present-day Slovakia)
Died28 July 1962(1962-07-28) (aged 85)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, (present-day Slovakia)
CitizenshipAustro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia
Occupation(s)Lutheran priest, missionary, writer, editor
Known forThe first translation of Bible from original languages into Slovak
SpouseRužena Vraná from Tisovec
ChildrenIvan Vladimír Roháček, Viera Roháčková, Miloš Roháček

Jozef Roháček (6 February 1877 – 28 July 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.[1]

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
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References

  1. ^ Holéczy, Daniel E. (1991). Životopisy – Kristína Royová, Jozef Roháček, Ružena Vraná, Viera Roháčková (in Slovak). Cicero. p. 42.
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