Peter Dajnko
Peter Dajnko was a Slovene priest, author, and linguist, known primarily as the inventor of the Dajnko alphabet, an innovative proposal for the Slovene alphabet. Dajnko was also a proficient beekeeper and wrote the first book about beekeeping in Slovene, titled Čelarstvo.
Life
Dajnko was born in the village of Črešnjevci near the town of Gornja Radgona, in what was then the Duchy of Styria in Archduchy of Austria as part of Habsburg monarchy. His parents was Filip Dajnko winegrower and Marija Korošec. After finishing high school in Maribor, he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Graz, where he graduated in 1814. He returned to Gornja Radgona, where he was a chaplain until 1831, when he moved to Velika Nedelja to be the parish priest. He died in Velika Nedelja.
Work
In 1824 Dajnko wrote a book in German called Lehrbuch der windischen Sprache. There, he proposed adoption of a new alphabet for Slovene, which was to replace the traditional Bohorič alphabet, used since the late-16th century. Dajnko wanted to improve the script because of its problems with writing of sibilants. He used his alphabet in all his books published since 1824. In 1825, Franc Serafin Metelko came up with a similar proposal, complicating the issue. The Dajnko alphabet, which was introduced to schools in 1831, was fiercely opposed by and Anton Martin Slomšek. After 1834 it gradually came out of use with the adoption of a slightly modified version of Gaj's Latin alphabet as the new Slovene script, and in 1839 it was officially abolished.
Works
Sazhetek vüzhenja 'Slaven'skega po nedelah, 1816Evangeliomi na v'se nedéle ino 'svetke skos leto, 1817Knishiza poboshnosti sa mlade ino dorashene kristjane, 1820Svetega pisma sgodbe is starega ino novega sakona, 1821Lehrbuch der Windischen Sprache, 1824Kmet Izidor s svojimi otroki ino lydmi, 1824Sto cirkvenih ino drügih poboxnih pesmi med katolȣkimi kristjani slovenskega naroda na Ȣtajerskem, 1826Listi ino evaŋgelji, 1826Svetega Pisma zgodbe iz Starega ino Novega Zakona, 1826Posvetne pesmi med slovenskim narodom na Ȣtajerskem, 1827Molitbe za katolȣke kerȣenike, 1829Opravilo svete meȣe, 1829Sveti krixni pot, 1829Boxja sluxba kerȣanske mladosti, 1830Zhelarstvo, 1831Чelarstvo, 1831Knixica poboxnosti za mlade ino doraȣene kristjane, 1833Abecedna knixica za dexelne ȣole, 1833Abecedna knixica na hitro ino lehko podvuчenje, 1833Veliki katekizem, 1833