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May 01, 1816 Ivanovci, Moravske Toplice, Slovenia Died on 18 Mar 1858 (aged 41)
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About Sándor Terplán
- Sándor Terplán (Slovene: Aleksander Terplan or Trpljan) (c.
- May 1, 1816 – March 18, 1858) was a Hungarian Lutheran priest and writer. Terplán was born in the Ivanovci in the Prekmurje region in the Kingdom of Hungary, into a Hungarian Slovene Lutheran family.
- Several priests were born in his village, both Catholic and Lutheran, including littérateurs or gentilitial politicians, such as József Borovnják and Ferenc Ivanóczy. Terplán's father Iván Terplan was a tailor and wine-merchant and estate manager of Baron Szaller in Ivanovci.
- His mother Zsuzsanna Berke was the aunt of writer Iván Berke and she was from noble family.
- Sándor Terplan studied in the elementary schools of Domanjševci and Szentgyörgyvölgy, in the Orség region.
- From 1828 he studied in Koszeg and also in Sopron, where he studied theology.
- In 1837 he got a scholarship and went to Vienna. He started working as a chaplain in Puconci, near Murska Sobota.
- Later he lived in Szombathely, but in 1843 moved back to Puconci where he became the village's pastor in 1844.
- He died of illness at the age of 42. Terplán did a lot for preservation of the identity of the local Slovenes.
- He was in contact with the murian littérateurs, such as János Kardos and Rudolf Czipott (he also celebrated the funeral mass of the latter).
- His first works were two prayer books for burials and vigils (1838).
- A work of his about the hearing of the confessions of the sick, written in Hungarian and German, remains in manuscript.
- He also wrote a pupils' textbook and a psalms book.
- Several of his works were only published after his death.
