Ján Chalupka (28 October 1791 - 15 July 1871) was a
Slovak dramatist, playwright, publicist and Evangelical pastor.
Life
He was born in
Horná Mičiná, into the family of Evangelical pastor Adam Chalupka, and was not the only member who chose
literature
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: his brother
Samo Chalupka
Samo Chalupka (27 February 1812, Horná Lehota, Brezno District – 19 May 1883, Horná Lehota) was a Slovak Lutheran priest and romantic poet.
Life
Samo Chalupka was a younger brother of Ján Chalupka, another Slovak writer. Samo stu ...
was also a writer. Chalupka was educated at home, in
Ožďany,
Levoča
Levoča (; hu, Lőcse; rue, Левоча)
is a town in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia with a population of 14,700. The town has a historic center with a well preserved town wall, a Gothic church with the highest wooden altar in the wo ...
,
Prešov,
Sárospatak
Sárospatak (german: Potok am Bodroch; la, Potamopolis; sk, Šarišský Potok or ; ) is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, northern Hungary. It lies northeast from Miskolc, in the Bodrog river valley. The town, often called simply ''Pa ...
and studied in
Vienna
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and
Jena
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. He was a teacher, from 1817 to 1824 a professor at a lyceum in
Kežmarok
Kežmarok (german: Kesmark or ; hu, Késmárk, yi, קעזמאַרק, Kezmark, pl, Kieżmark) is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia (population 16,000), on the Poprad River. Prior to World War I, it was in Szepes county in the ...
and from 1824 until his death a pastor in Brezno.
Works
His main contribution into the
Slovak literature was in drama. His activities were the impulse for the theatrical life in present-day Slovakia. He wrote mainly dramatic satirical works, where he criticized local patriotism,
Magyarization aspects, conservatism, limited life goals etc. His first works were in
Czech
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** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
and
Hungarian, but after 1848 he started writing in
Slovak and translated originally Czech works into Slovak.
Drama
Cycle about Kocúrkovo (comedy, "Gotham City"):
* 1830 - ''Kocourkovo, aneb: Jen abychom v hanbě nezůstali''
** 1832 - ''Všecko naopak, aneb: Tesnošilova Anička sa žení a Honzík se vydáva''
** 1833 - ''Trasořitka, anebo: Stará láska se předce dočekala''
** 1835 - ''Třináctá hodina, aneb: Však se nahledíme, kdo bude hlásníkem v Kocourkově''
** 1837 - ''Starouš plesnivec anebo Čtyry svadby na jednom pohřebe v Kocourkově''
* 1835 - ''A vén szerelmes, vagy a Tozházi négy völegény''
* 1854 - ''Dobrovoľníci''
* 1862 - ''Huk a Fuk anebo: Prvý apríl''
* 1862 - ''Černokňažník''
* 1873 - ''Juvelír''
Prose
* 1836 - ''Kocourkovo'' (a prosaic version)
* 1841 - ''Bendeguz, Gyula Kolompos und Pista Kurtaforint. Eine Donquixottiade nach der neuesten Mode von P. P.''
Other
* ''Geschichte der Generalsynoden beider evangelischen Konfessionen in Ungarn vom Jahre 1791'' (History of general synods of both Evangelical confessions in Hungary since 1791)
* ''Schreiben des Grafen Karl Zay, Generalalinspektors der evang. Kirchen und Schulen Augsb. Konf. In Ungarn, an die Prefoessoren zu Leutschau'' (A letter of Earl Karl Zay, general inspector of evangelical churches and schools of Augsburg confession in Hungary, to professors in
Leutschau)
* 1842 - ''Zpěvník evanjelický aneb Písně duchovní staré i nové''
* 1846–47 - ''Kázně nedělní a svátečné''
External links
Ján Chalupka
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1791 births
1871 deaths
People from Banská Bystrica District
People from the Kingdom of Hungary
Slovak Lutherans
Slovak dramatists and playwrights
19th-century dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Lutherans