Baron Ján Jesenský (30 December 1874 in Tučiansky Svätý Martin (),
Kingdom of Hungary
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(present day
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, Slovakia) – 27 December 1945 in
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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) was a
Slovak lower nobleman of the
House of Jeszenszky, poet,
prose
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writer, translator, and politician. He was a prominent member of the
Slovak national movement.
References
External links
Album of Slovak Writers – Janko Jesenský
1874 births
1945 deaths
Slovak poets
Slovak translators
People from Martin, Slovakia
Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Janko
Burials at National Cemetery in Martin
Slovak nobility
Poets from Austria-Hungary
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