Mátyás Krajczár

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Krajczár's hymnal.

Mátyás Krajczár (Slovene: Matjaš Krajcar, 1876–1958) was a Hungarian Slovene writer in the village of Permise (Kétvölgy).

His parents were Slovene Roman Catholic peasants. In 1895 he wrote a manuscript hymnal with Prekmurje-dialect dirges. Many of the dirges were adapted from old hymnals, including from .

In the 1950s the communists deported Krajczár to Hortobágy. In 1956 he returned. In 1958 he died; his grave is in the Apátistvánfalva cemetery.

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  • Vilko Novak: Prekmurske rokopisne pesmarice, Jezik in slovstvo 6/7, Slavistično društvo Slovenije 1974.
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