Mihály Bertalanits

Mihály Bertalanits
Born	8 November 1788 Gerečavci
Died	8 January 1853
Nationality	Hungarian Slovene
Occupation	Teacher

Mihály Bertalanits (Slovene: Mihael Bertalanitš, Prekmurian: Miháo Bertalanitš) (November 8, 1788 – January 8, 1853) was a Slovene cantor, teacher, and poet in Hungary.

Beralanits was the son of peasants György Bertalanics and Katarina (unknown surname) in the now uninhabited village of Gerečavci between Večeslavci and Sveti Jurij near Rogašovci. In 1806 he became an auxiliary teacher in Beltinci and in 1808 a teacher in Felsőszölnök. There he met an auxiliary teacher named Ferenc Marics and his father, György, the teacher and cantor of Apátistvánfalva, who was also born in Gerečavci.

Together, Bertalanits and Marics copied and reworked the Prekmurian hymnal of cantor-teacher Ruzsics. Marics used this hymnal in Istvánfalva and Bertalanits in Pečarovci, where he lived until his death from pneumonia in 1853.

See also

• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
• Old hymnal of Martjanci

Literature

• Francek Mukič – Marija Kozar: Slovensko Porabje, MOHORJEVA DRUŽBA CELJE, 1982.