Joannes Adamus Gaiger

Joannes Adamus Gaiger was a Slovene philologist, religious writer, lexicographer, translator, and Capuchin.
Gaiger was born in Novo Mesto circa 1667. After studying with the Jesuits in Ljubljana, he joined the Capuchin order in 1684. He taught philosophy at monasteries in Maribor and Graz, and then theology in the Ljubljana area. In 1712 he published his Dictionarium trilingue, a trilingual dictionary of Latin, German, and Slovene. In 1715 he published a revised edition of Adam Bohorič's grammar Grammatica latino-germanico-slavonica, and that same year a third edition of the 1613 work Evangelia inu lystuvi. Gaiger died in Kranj in 1722.