Janko Kráľ ( hu, Král János; 24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now

Liptovský Mikuláš Liptovský Mikuláš (; until 1952 ''Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš'', german: Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus; hu, Liptószentmiklós) is a town in northern Slovakia, on the Váh River, about from Bratislava. It lies in the Liptov region, in Liptov Bas ...

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) – 23 May 1876 in

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) was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the

Ľudovít Štúr Ľudovít Velislav Štúr (; hu, Stur Lajos; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), known in his era as Ludevít Štúr, (pen names : B. Dunajský, Bedlivý Ludorob, Boleslav Záhorský, Brat Slovenska, Ein Slave, Ein ungarischer Slave, Karl Wi ...

generation and a national activist. Because of his obscure personality, it is not known exactly what he looked like, but several more or less popular supposed pictures of him exist. One of them was used as a model for the statue of Janko Kráľ located in a

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called

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(literally Janko Kráľ Garden) in

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. He is buried in the

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. He was one of the first poets to start writing in the modern

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standard freshly codified (in 1843) by

and his companions. There is a school with his name, Gymnázium Janka Kráľa, located in

Works

*''Zverbovaný'' *''Zabitý'' *''Zakliata panna vo Váhu a divný Janko'' *''Moja pieseň'' *''Pieseň bez mena'' *''Orol'' *''Piesne'' *''Potecha'' *''Pán v trní'' *''Pieseň'' *''Duma bratislavská'' *''Kríž a čiapka'' *''Choč'' *''Krajinská pieseň'' *''Slovo'' *''Duma slovenská'' *''Krakoviaky dobrovoľníkove'' *''Jarná Pieseň''

References

1822 births 1876 deaths Writers from Liptovský Mikuláš Slovak poets 19th-century poets Burials at National Cemetery in Martin People of the Slovak Uprising of 1848–49 {{Slovakia-bio-stub