Gergely Luthár

Gergely Luthár (Prekmurian: Gergel Lutar, Slovene: Gregor Lutar, February 18, 1841 Sebeborci – March 12, 1925 Sebeborci) was a Slovene landowner, notary and writer in Hungary.

He was born in Sebeborci to a Lutheran family. His parents János Luthár and Rozina Berke (from Križevci) were petty noblemen. In Puconci he left school and married Anna Obál as Tešanovci.

Luthár was the notary of Puconci, and retired in 1887. Luthár and Mihály Kolossa's writings were reworked and published in the new issue of István Szijjártó's Mrtvecsne peszmi in Prekmurian language: Mrtvecsne peszmi stere szo szti sztári piszm vküp pobráne, pobougsane ino na haszek szlovenszkoga národa zdaj obdrügics na szvetlost dáne po Luthár Gergelyi i Kolossa Mihályi Szembiborczi sztoécsiva (1887). He died in Sebeborci.

Literature

• Ivan Škafar: Bibliografija prekmurskih tiskov od 1715 do 1919, Ljubljana 1978.

See also

• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary