Primož Trubar (1508-1586) was a Protestant reformist, the founder and first superintendent of the Protestant Church in Slovenia, the consolidator of the Slovene language and the first Slovene writer.
He was born in 1586 in the village of Rašica, Dolenjska region. During the years 1522 through 1524 he went to school in Salzburg, then he went to Trieste to bishop Bonomo. In 1528 he enrolled at Vienna University, but he did not complete his studies. He became a preacher and an advocate of Protestant demands. The first focal point of Slovenian Protestantism that in 1530 served as a springboard for Trubar's Protestant activities in Slovenia was formed around the Bishop of Trieste Bonomo. The Ljubljana bishop Textor decided in 1547 to deal with the priests in favour of protestant reformation and thus the ecclesiastic court in Ljubljana excommunicated him. He travelled to Germany in the spring of next year, first he went to Nuerenberg. He thus wrote the first Slovene books, "Catechismus" and "Abecedarium", in Rothenburg in 1550 and published them the same year in Tuebingen. In the next decades Trubar published another 25 books.
