Career
In 1564 Pergošić was a rector of a school in Zagreb. In 1574 he printed a translation of “Tripartitum” written by István Werbőczy. Pergošić referred to the language he used in this translation (titled ) was Slavic (Serbo-Croatian: jazik slavjanski) and in its preface Pergošić emphasized that it was written for "Slavs and Croats".
lieutenant is assumed that he used terms Slavs and Croats to refer to the people of two administrative regions of Habsburg Monarchy (Kingdom of Slavonia and Kingdom of Croatia) without any sort of ethnic connotation.
Pergošić"s 1574 translation of “Tripartitum” is considered the first printed book on Kajkavian dialect and the first printed work of Kajkavian literature.
