George of Slavonia

[3] He became a Glagolitic and a Latin spiritual writer and a professor of theology at the Paris University of Sorbonne (from 1394 to 1403), and from 1404 in church service in the city of Tours.

He was a theological writer and wrote a Croatian alphabet book and basic Christian prayers in Glagolitic script around 1400.

With these texts he apparently wanted to show his French counterparts that in addition to a Hebrew and Greek native script, there exists a Croatian one also.

He stated, ‘Iste alphabetum est Chrawaticum,’ which means ‘This alphabet is Croatian.’[4] In 1401, he received his doctorate in theology, and in 1403, his name was included in the list of professors of the Paris-Sorbonne University.

George of Slavonia was very proud of the region of Istria, which he proclaims as a part of his Croatian homeland: ‘Istria eadem patria Chrawati,’ which means ‘Istria is the homeland of the Croats.’[4] In his works, George also lists the eleven Glagolitic bishops in Croatia: In a note on the same page, he claims that Croatian bishops preached in both Latin and Croatian, ‘Primus episcopus Chrawacie qui scit utrumque ydioma, tam latinum quam chrawaticum, et celebrat missam in altero istorum ydiomatum quocumque sibi placet.’[6] After WWII, Croatian priests, primarily Božo Milanović, prepared for the Paris Peace Treaties in 1947, during which the fate of Istria was to be resolved.