Sorbian literature

Sorbian literature began with the Reformation and the translations of religious texts.

The first translation of the New Testament was made in 1549 by M. Jakubica and the first printed book in 1574 was Albin Moller's Zpevnik a Katechism (hymnal and catechism).

Sorbian is also noted in one of the first multilingual dictionaries: Megiser's Thesaurus Polyglottus, published in Frankfurt in 1603.

[4] Sorbian poetry flourished in the late 1800s with one of the most notable poets being Handrij Zejler, who published between 1883 and 1891.

[1] The longest running of various Sorbian journals is called the Casopis Macicy Serbskeje, published between 1848 and 1918.