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Order Of Ľudovít Štúr
The Order of Ľudovít Štúr ( sk, Rad Ľudovíta Štúra) is the third highest Slovak state decoration (after the Order of the White Double Cross and the Orders, decorations, and medals of Slovakia#Andrej Hlinka Order, Order of Andrej Hlinka) conferred by the President of Slovakia, President of the Slovak Republic upon the proposal of the Government of Slovakia, government. The president, who is a recipient, 1st Class, of the order by virtue of holding office, is not obligated to respect the proposal. The medal is awarded to Slovak citizens who have made exceptional contributions to democracy and human rights, the defence and security of the republic, or for exceptionally significant merit in the fields of politics, state management and administration, the development of the national economy, science and technology, culture, art, education, sports, and for significant spread of the good name of the Slovak Republic abroad. The Order of Ľudovít Štúr, instituted on 2 February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ján Chryzostom Korec
Ján Chryzostom Korec, Society of Jesus, SJ (22 January 1924 – 24 October 2015) was a Slovakia, Slovak Jesuit priest and a cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest in 1950 and consecrated as a bishop in 1951. Because of the government's suppression of the Catholic Church, he spent 39 years as working as a priest without government authorisation, either in prison or by supporting himself as a labourer. In 1990, Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Diocese of Nitra, Nitra and in 1991 named him a cardinal. Korec retired in 2005 and died in 2015. Early life He was born to a working-class family. His father, Ján Korec, and his mother, Mária Drábiková, were labourers at a local leather factory in Bošany. He had two older siblings; his brother, Anton, was imprisoned during the first wave of communist persecution in 1951, and his sister was Štefánia. His family lived a humble life with limited resources. Korec entered the Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Kováč
Michal Kováč (3 August 1930 – 5 October 2016) was the first president of Slovakia, having served from 1993 through 1998. Early life Kováč was born in the village of Ľubiša in then Czechoslovakia in 1930. He graduated from the present-day University of Economics in Bratislava and was a bank employee of the Státní banka československá and of other banks. As such, he spent some years in London and in Cuba in the 1960s. During the Normalization (Czechoslovakia), Normalization he was subject to some persecution. Political career During and after the Velvet Revolution, from 12 December 1989 to 17 May 1991 (when he resigned) Kováč was the Finance Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovak (Socialist) Republic. In early 1991, he was one of the founders and the vice-chairman of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. As such, he was elected as a deputy to the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia in 1990. After the 1992 Slovak parliamentary election, 1992 election he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Chudík
Ladislav Chudík (27 May 1924 – 29 June 2015) was a Slovak actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. Selected filmography Awards * Czech Lion for Best Supporting Actor (2009) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chudik, Ladislav 1924 births 2015 deaths Slovak male film actors Slovak male television actors 20th-century Slovak male actors 21st-century Slovak male actors Czech Lion Awards winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondrej Lenárd
Ondrej Lenárd (9 September 1942, Krompachy, Slovakia) is a Slovak conductor. He was principal conductor of the Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1990 and of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra from 1991 to 2001, where his concert work included performances of Ján Levoslav Bella's ''Wieland der Schmied''. His recordings include a Marco Polo issue of the Symphony No. 1 of Havergal Brian, and a Naxos recording of the complete ''Nutcracker''. In 2019, he became chief conductor for the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Discography * Eugen Suchoň: '' Krútňava'' * Antonín Dvořák: '' Symphony No. 9 "New World"'' (1988, Gold Fidelity, Pacific Music Co., Ltd.) * Pavol Habera: '' Svet lásku má'' (1996, Polygram) * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: ''Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoye ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, link=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Baco
Peter Baco (born 9 April 1945; Opatová, Lučenec) is a Slovak politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, and was therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament. He sits on its Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, and is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee. Decorations * Holder of the Order of Ľudovít Štúr The Order of Ľudovít Štúr ( sk, Rad Ľudovíta Štúra) is the third highest Slovak state decoration (after the Order of the White Double Cross and the Orders, decorations, and medals of Slovakia#Andrej Hlinka Order, Order of Andrej Hlinka) ... * FAO Silver Medal * Departmental award of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic External links * * 1945 births Living people People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia MEPs MEPs for Slovakia 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergej Kozlík
Sergej Kozlík (born 27 July 1950 in Bratislava) is a Slovak politician, who had served as the Minister of Finance of Slovakia, Member of the European Parliament and MP of the Slovak parliament. He sat on its Committee on Budgets, and is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. See also *2004 European Parliament election in Slovakia An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Slovakia for the 2004–2009 term of the European Parliament was held on 13 June 2004 as part of the wider 2004 European election. The turnout was the lowest of any country in the Eur ... References External links * * 1950 births Living people Finance ministers of Slovakia Politicians from Bratislava People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia MEPs MEPs for Slovakia 2004–2009 MEPs for Slovakia 2009–2014 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 1998-20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juraj Schenk
Juraj Schenk (born May 6, 1948) is former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1994 to 1996 in cabinet of Vladimír Mečiar. Schenk studied sociology at the Univezita Komenského, Bratislava and is working there since 1972. In 1994 he became a professor of sociology and is teaching there until now. His main professional interests include sociological methodology, self-organisation of social systems ( synergetics, chaos theory), causal modelling, construction of sociological theories and empirical research. His current research activities concern with Alexander Hirner's methodological conception, scaling in sociological research, chaos theory and empirical research. References "prof. PhDr. Juraj Schenk, PhD."(Slovak) Faculty biography at Comenius University in Bratislava Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľudovít Rajter
Ľudovít Rajter ( hu, Rajter Lajos; 30 July 1906 in Bazin, Kingdom of Hungary – 6 July 2000 in Bratislava, Slovakia) was a Hungarian composer and conductor from Slovakia. The Rajter family immigrated to Hungary from South Germany, but were of Dutch origin. Life Rajter's evangelical family had German-Hungarian roots. His father worked as a teacher, cantor and choral conductor in the service of the Evangelical Church A.B. Rajter's family came from southern Germany and came to Hungary in the time of Maria Theresa (c. 1740). In that time the family name was still "Raiter" or "Rayter". Rajter's family spoke three languages: Hungarian, German, and Slovak, and Rajter kept this habit to the end of his life. Professional background He received his first musical training from his father Lajos Rajter Sr (1880–1945), then (from 1920) in the music school in Bratislava (with Alexander Albrecht). After completion of this school and after graduation at the Protestant Lycé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľubor Kresák
Ľubor Kresák (23 August 1927 in Topoľčany – 20 January 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovak astronomer. He discovered two comets: the periodic comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and the non-periodic C/1954 M2 (Kresak-Peltier). He also suggested in 1978 that the Tunguska event was a fragment of the periodic comet Encke. The asteroid 1849 Kresák was named in his honor. His wife Margita Kresáková was also an astronomer. References External links Publications by Ľ. Kresákin Astrophysics Data System The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database of over 16 million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources. Abstracts are available free online for almost all articles, and full scanned a ... 1927 births 1994 deaths Czechoslovak astronomers People from Topoľčany {{Europe-astronomer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Hrušovský
Dominik Hrušovský (1 June 1926 – 27 July 2016) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served outside his homeland during its years of Communist control, largely devoted to the pastoral care of Catholic Slovaks abroad. Late in his career he returned to Slovakia. He was also Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus. Biography He was born in Veľká Maňa, Slovakia, on 1 June 1926. He began his theological studies in Bratislava and then from 1946 in Rome at the Pontifical Lateran University. Because of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, he did not return home. He was ordained on 23 December 1950 and worked as a pastor in the Diocese of Belluno. From 1955 to 1962 he taught philosophy and theology at the regional seminar in Viterbo. From 1962 to 1966 he was a member of the Slovak Catholic Mission in Paris. He then worked in the Slovak Institute of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Rome and became its head in 1975. On 18 December 1982, Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Tatarka
Dominik Tatarka (14 March 1913 – 10 May 1989) was a Slovak writer famous for his 1956 satirical text ''The Demon of Consent'' (''Démon súhlasu'' in Slovak) condemning Stalinism. Early life Tatarka was born in Plevník-Drienové to Jozef Tatarka-Greš and Žofia Tatarková (née Časnochová), who originally came from Skalité. He was the only boy and the second youngest out of eight children. After obtaining his primary education in his home village, Tatarka studied at grammar schools in Nitra and Trenčín, followed by universities studies of the Slovak and French language at the Charles University in Prague (1934–1938) and at Sorbonne (1938–1939). After the Communist takeover After his return from studies abroad, he worked as a French language teacher at the grammar schools in Žilina and Martin. During the World War II, he joined the illegal Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and participated in the Slovak National Uprising. In the early 1950s, Tatarka work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
