Janez Adam Geiger


Janez Adam Geiger was a Slovene philologist, religious writer, lexicographer, translator, and Capuchin.
Geiger was born in Novo Mesto in 1667. After studying with the Jesuits in Ljubljana, he joined the Capuchin order around 1684. He taught philosophy at monasteries in Maribor and Graz, and then theology in the Ljubljana area. In 1712 he published his Dictionarium trilingue, a trilingual dictionary of Latin, German, and Slovene. In 1715 he published a revised edition of Adam Bohorič's grammar Grammatica latino-germanico-slavonica, and that same year a third edition of the 1613 work Evangelia inu lystuvi. Geiger died in Kranj in 1722.