Mátyás Godina
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Mátyás Godina (Slovene: Matjaž Godina, Prekmurian: Mátjaš Godina (ar. 1768 – January 1, 1835) Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer and teacher in Hungary.
Born in Lemerje, Godina's family was of minor nobility. He went to school in Surd in Somogy county, where he lived and worked with two Slovene littérateurs: István Küzmics and Mihály Bakos. Godina graduated from the Lutheran Lyceum of Sopron and returned to his home region Tótság (Prekmurje) as a consecrated priest.
Between 1793-1799, Godina worked as a teacher, and after the death of the priest István Szmodis, Godina became the pastor in 1821. From 1821 until his death, Godina was a priest and a teacher in Gornji Petrovci.
Godina wrote church hymns, sermons and school curricula in the Prekmurian language.
See also
Sources
- Evangeličanska cerkvena občina Bodonci
- Vili Kerčmar: Evangeličanska cerkev na Slovenskem, Murska Sobota 1995.
- Articles containing Slovene-language text
- 1768 births
- 1835 deaths
- 18th-century Slovenian people
- 19th-century Slovenian people
- 18th-century Hungarian people
- 19th-century Hungarian people
- Slovenian Lutheran clergy
- Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary
- People from the Municipality of Puconci
- People from the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci