Slovenia 2020 500th anniversary of the birth of Adam Bohoric

500th anniversary of the birth of Adam Bohoric

Adam Bohoric  was a protestant schoolteacher and the author of the first Slovenian grammar. He was born around 1520 near Brestanica, and died in exile in Germany on 20 November 1598. He enrolled at the arts faculty in the German town of Wittenberg on 18 October 1548, where he studied linguistics and music, and had a lifelong involvement in church singing. Between 1551 and 1563 he ran a private Latin school in Krško, which was attended by Jurij Dalmatin among others. After bidding farewell to the school in Krško, he was the head teacher of a church school in Ljubljana between mid-1566 and 1 August 1582, and again between April 1595 and July 1598 owing to staff shortages. He also wrote the school rules, in which Slovene was granted the status of the language of conversation and of study.

To mark the 500^th anniversary of the birth of Adam Bohoric, the Republic of Slovenia is issuing a commemorative coin. The design features a multilingual slogan from the title page of Bohorics grammar, Proste zimske urice (Free Winter Hours), which captures the essence of his work in a few words. The multilingual nature symbolises the duality of Bohorič’s contribution to Slovenian culture. The Slovene part of the slogan is rendered in the Bohoric alphabet, while the Latin inscription represents his contribution to the international academic realm.

Weight - 8.5 g.
Quality - UNC (Uncirculated)
Diameter - 25.75 mm.
Composition - Bimetallic - nickel brass clad nickel center in copper-nickel ring
Circulation - 1'000'000 pcs.
Country of origin - Slovenia
Year of release - 2020