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Order Of Ľudovít Štúr
The Order of Ľudovít Štúr () 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 1994, is bestowed annually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Dubček
Alexander Dubček (; 27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992) was a Slovaks, Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) (''de facto'' leader of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 1989 to 1992 following the Velvet Revolution. He oversaw significant reforms to the Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia, communist system during a period that became known as the Prague Spring, but his reforms were reversed and he was eventually sidelined following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968. Best known by the slogan, "Socialism with a human face", Dubček led a process that accelerated cultural and economic liberalization in Czechoslovakia. Reforms were opposed by conservatives inside the party who benefited from the Stalinist economy, as well as interests in the nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Zvarík
František Zvarík (; 17 July 1921 – 17 August 2008) was an accomplished theater actor (over 50 years in Slovak National Theatre) and movie character actor. He has appeared in about two dozen Czechoslovakian and Slovak films since the 1940s. Among his accomplishments is the key supporting role of the town commander Markuš Kolkotský in '' The Shop on Main Street'', a film which won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a .... External links * Notes 1921 births 2008 deaths People from Vrútky Slovak film actors Slovak male stage actors {{Slovakia-actor-stub ... [...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 1929. He then 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 Normalization he was subjected 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. 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 election he served as the Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 25 June to 31 December 1992. He pla ... [...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 The Czech Lion Awards () are annual awards that recognize accomplishments in filmmaking and television. It is the highest award of achievement in film awarded in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historica ... 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, Korompa, Hungary Slovakia.html" ;"title="ow Krompachy, Slovakia">ow 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 2013 he was the conductor of the 70th anniversary concert held at the Hungarian State Opera of the famed Hungarian soprano Éva Marton, which featured Grace Bumbry and Jonas Kaufmann. 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) ... [...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 Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ... Joint Parliamentary Committee. Decorations * Holder of the Order of Ľudovít Štúr * 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 20 ... [...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 A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ... 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 References External links * * 1950 births Living people Deputy prime ministers of Slovakia 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 th ... [...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 Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľudovít Rajter
Ľudovít Rajter (; 30 July 1906 – 6 July 2000) was a Slovak composer and conductor from Austria-Hungary. Early life and education Rajter's evangelical family had roots among the German-Hungarian and Dutch communities. His father was a teacher, cantor, and choral conductor in the Lutheran church. Rajter's family migrated from southern Germany to Hungary during the reign of Maria Theresa (1740–1780). At the time, the family surname was spelled "Raiter" or "Rayter." Rajter's family spoke Hungarian, German, and Slovak. Rajter began his musical training with his father, Lajos Rajter Sr. (1880–1945). From 1915 to 1920, he studied with Alexander Albrecht at the Musical School for Slovakia (now a Conservatory) in Bratislava. In 1924, he enrolled at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied composition with Franz Schmidt and Joseph Marx, and conducted with Clemens Krauss and Alexander Wunderer. Rajter served as an assistant to Clemens Krau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľubor Kresák
Ľubor Kresák (23 August 1927 in Topoľčany – 20 January 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovakia, 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. Kresák in Astrophysics Data System 1927 births 1994 deaths Czechoslovak astronomers People from Topoľčany Tunguska event {{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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
