János Zsupánek

János Zsupánek or Zsupanek (Slovene: Janoš Županek) (January 6, 1861 – March 11, 1951) was a Slovene writer and poet in Hungary, son of the poet and writer Mihály Zsupánek. His son Vilmos Zsupánek was also a writer and poet. The three Zsupáneks few old hymn not down for prosterity and wrote also new hymns and poems in Prekmurian language.

Zsupánek was born in Šalovci. His mother was Mária Gomilár. Zsupánek was in few pilgrimage (Graz, Mariazell, Maribor, Slovenske Gorice) and known to many German, Hungarian, Latin and Slovene (in Slovenske Gorice dialect, closely related of the Prekmurian) hymns.

Zsupánek wrote his first hymns in Hungarian. In 1908, he published his prayer book and hymnal Vu Iméni Ocsé, i Sziná, i Dühá, szvétoga Ámen (The Father Son and Holy Ghost). In 1910 he published a prekmurian mortuary hymnal, Mrtvecsne peszmi. The publishing supported Miklós Kovács and József Konkolics from Šalovci.

He died in Šalovci.

Works

• Magyar dalok (1884–1893)
• Vu iméni Ocsé, i Sziná, i Dühá, szvétoga Ámen (1908)
• Mrtvecsne peszmi (1910)
• Szenje blázsene device Marie (in the prekmurian Novine, 1916)

See also

• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary