János Zsupánek

Who was János Zsupánek?

János Zsupánek or Zsupanek 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 and known to many German, Hungarian, Latin and Slovene 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. In 1910 he published a prekmurian mortuary hymnal, Mrtvecsne peszmi. The publishing supported Miklós Kovács and József Konkolics from Šalovci.

He died in Šalovci.