János Fliszár

Who was János Fliszár?

János Fliszár was a Hungarian Slovenian translator, poet, writer, journalist and teacher.

He was born in the village of Šalamenci in the Prekmurje region of the Kingdom of Hungary, his parents Miklós Fliszár and Ilona Zsibrik. From 1862 studied in the elementary school of Puconci, and later in Nemescsó near Kőszeg. Until 1868 studied in the Evangelic Lyceum of Sopron,completing the studies there in June 1875. From October of the same year he worked as teacher in Križevci. Here he married to daughter of the writer János Berke in 1878.

In 1911 he retired and worked in Murska Sobota on the Bank of the Mura March. Until 1923 he worked as the director of the Dormitory of Murska Sobota.

Fliszár wrote some poetry and translated the great Hungarian literary figures. The translation was published in the United States of America, in the newspaper Amerikanszki Szlovencov glász, issued by the Hungarian Slovenian and Prekmurian immigrants to the USA:

After the World War I, Fliszár lived in Yugoslavia, and supported radical Hungarian irredentism. He wrote the Wends-Hungarian and Hungarian-Wends Dictionary, what includes 50 thousand words.