Imre Augustich


Imre Augustich or Agostich was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist, and representative of Vas county in the National [Assembly of Hungary]. He was the author of Prijátel, the first newspaper in Prekmurje Slovene.
Augustich was born in Murski Petrovci. His father, Lajos Augustich, was a petty nobleman and economic officer for the Szapáry family. His mother, Julianna Zanaty, was born in Szombathely. Augustich studied in Szombathely and Budapest, and early in his career was a notary for the Batthyány family in Murska Sobota and Alsószölnök, and became a reporter and journalist in Budapest.
The first works that Augustich wrote in Hungarian supported magyarization in the Slovene [March |Slovene March]. Augustich translated verses by Sándor Petőfi, János Arany, Pál Gyulai, and others, at the same time renewing Prekmurje Slovene language and literature.
He died of tuberculosis in Budapest.

Works

  • A polgári házasság. Népszerű jog- és társadalmi tudomány dr. H-ain és dr. Ch-nd után.
  • Návuk vogerszkoga jezika za zacsetnike. Budapest, 1876.
  • Prirodopis s kepami, 1879
  • Prijátel 1875–1879

    Literature

  • Natalija Ulčnik: Začetki prekmurskega časopisja, Zora 67, 2009. Maribor
  • Anton Trstenjak: Slovenci na Ogrskem, Narodnapisna in književna črtica, OBJAVA ARHIVSKIH VIROV Maribor 2006.
  • Vilko Novak: Izbor prekmurskega slovstva, Ljubljana 1976.