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Apr 11, 1744 Kamnik, Osrednjeslovenska Statistical Region, Slovenia Died on 11 Oct 1807 (aged 63)
Slovenian philologist
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About Jurij Japelj
- Jurij Japelj, also known in German as Georg Japel, (11 April 1744 – 11 October 1807) was a Slovene Jesuit priest, translator, and philologist.
- He was part of the Zois circle, a group of Carniolan scholars and intellectuals that were instrumental in the spread of Enlightenment ideas in the Slovene Lands.
- His translations of the Bible, based on the 16th-century translation of the Lutheran author Jurij Dalmatin, set the basis for the development of modern standard Slovene.
