Cantor-teacher Ruzsics (Prekmurje Slovene: Kantor-školnik Ružič, standard Slovene: Kantor-učitelj Ružič) was a Hungarian Slovene elementary school teacher, cantor, and poet in the 18th century. He lived and worked in village of Felsőszölnök, Hungary. His first name and ethnicity are unknown. The surnames Ruzsics and Rüsics occur in Felsőszölnök today, but this does not prove that his ancestors were Slovenians; he was most probably of Croatian descent.
Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, East Slovene, or Wendish, is a Slovene dialect belonging to a Pannonian dialect group of Slovene. It is used in private communication, liturgy, and publications by authors from Prekmurje. It is spoken in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia and by the Hungarian Slovenes in Vas County in western Hungary. It is closely related to other Slovene dialects in neighboring Slovene Styria, as well as to Kajkavian with which it retains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum with other South Slavic languages.
Hungarian Slovenes are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes in the Rába Valley in western Hungary between the town of Szentgotthárd and the borders with Slovenia and Austria. They speak the Prekmurje Slovene dialect. Outside the Rába Valley, Slovenes mainly live in the Szombathely region and in Budapest.
A teacher is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.
He wrote a Slovenian hymnal in 1789; the book consists of liturgical songs in the Prekmurje dialect. It was later copied and distributed by Mihály Bertalanits and Ferenc Marics.
A hymnal or hymnary is a collection of hymns, usually in the form of a book, called a hymnbook. Hymnals are used in congregational singing.
Mihály Bertalanits was a Slovene cantor, teacher, and poet in Hungary.
Ferenc Marič was a Hungarian teacher and poet.
