Sebastian Krelj, also known asSebastjan Krelj,Sebastijan Krelj orBoštjan Krelj (1538 – 25 December 1567) was aSloveneProtestant reformer,writer, pastor,linguist and preacher and regarded as one of the most educated Slovene Protestants of the 16th century.[1]
Krelj was born inVipava, then part of theDuchy of Carniola. He studied atUniversity of Jena and became a follower of theLutheran preacher and writerPrimož Trubar, the leader of theProtestant Reformation in theSlovene Lands, whom he assisted as a preacher inLjubljana. In 1565, he becamesuperintendent of the Carniolan Protestant Church in Ljubljana. Already at the time of assuming the position, he was suffering fromtuberculosis and on Christmas two years later died from it, leaving behind a widow and a child.[2]
Krelj had a wide linguistic and philologic knowledge: besidesSlovene,German andLatin, he knewAncient Greek,Hebrew,Croatian andGlagolitic literature. Krelj put the central dialect into context of dialects spoken byIstrians, the inhabitants of theVipava Valley andLower Carniolans. He introduced some changes to the Latin script originally adopted by Trubar from the German. He consistently differentiated the phonemes /s/ /z/ /t͡s/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /t͡ʃ/ /t͡ɕ/ /ə/ (written by Krelj asſ s z ſh sh zh ch à/è, modern orthographys z c š ž č ć e). His reforms were taken up byJurij Dalmatin in the first translation of the entire Bible to the Slovene.[3] In 1583, they were codified byAdam Bohorič in his grammar bookArcticae horulae succisivae.
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