Primoz Trubar (1508-1586) wanted to catch up with the times in which he lived and move beyond a Europe that believed in the permanence of a system in which the earth was the centre of the universe; he wanted to reform the Slovenian Church and to teach the people the lessons of the gospels, and he wanted to reorganise the Slovenian education system and lay the foundations for the development of Slovenian literature. Because he was a man of a changing world, he had to flee. To Nürenberg, Rothenburg, Tübingen. Once there, he didn't renounce thoughts of spreading his views; he wrote for his countrymen and had his first book printed in Tübingen - for security under the nickname "Illyrian patriot", just as the printer Morhart hid behind the name Jernei Skuryaniz from Sedmograška. The work of the Slovenian protestant reformer, founder and first superintendent of the protestant Church in Slovenia, including several catechisms and translations of individual parts of the Bible, were placed in 1596 on the Vatican's list of banned books and were later largely destroyed. Two pamphlets from 1550 also escaped fire and oblivion. Trubar's Catechism and Primer are today considered the first printed Slovenian books. He fled to Germany in the face of persecution from the Catholic Church in 1547.

Primoz Trubar (1508-1586), central figure of Slovene Protestantism and founder of the Slovenian literary language