Andrej Žarnov
Andrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, (November 19, 1903 in Kuklov (Kukló), Austria-Hungary (today:Slovakia) – March 16, 1982 in Poughkeepsie City, New York, United States) was a Slovak Catholic modernist (Catholic Moderna) writer and physician. After 1945 he was persecuted and imprisoned. Since 1952 on emigration; he moved to Austria, Italy and USA.
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Andrej Žarnov
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- Name
- Andrej Žarnov
- Born
- 19 November 1905
- Birthplace
- Kuklov (Kukló), Austria-Hungary (today:Slovakia)
- Died
- 16 February 1982
- Place of death
- Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
- Occupation
- Physician Poet Translator
- Education
- Comenius University
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary · Czechoslovakia
- Honours
- Silver Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature
- Languages
- Slovak
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Andrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, (November 19, 1903 in Kuklov (Kukló), Austria-Hungary (today:Slovakia) – March 16, 1982 in Poughkeepsie City, New York, United States) was a Slovak Catholic modernist (Catholic Moderna) writer and physician. After 1945 he was persecuted and imprisoned. Since 1952 on emigration; he moved to Austria, Italy and USA.
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• Name — Andrej Žarnov • Born — 19 November 1905 • Birthplace — Kuklov (Kukló), Austria-Hungary (today:Slovakia) • Died — 16 February 1982 • Place of death — Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Physician Poet Translator • Language — Slovak • Education — Comenius University • Genre — Poetry • Illustration — Signatures of the members of the Katyn Commission
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He was an author of socio-political, patriotic and reflective poems – Stráž pri Morave (1925), Štít (1940), Preosievač piesku (1978). He was a populariser and translator of Polish poetry works, author of anthology U pol'ských básnikov (1936).
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- 1.Sabine Witt: Nationalistische Intellektuelle in der Slowakei 1918–1945, 2015, S. 325
- 2.Es ist unklar, ob Šubík auf einem der vorhandenen Gruppenfotos zu sehen ist. Es sind auch Verwechslungen möglich. Der Artikel über František Šubík in der russischen Wikipedia zeigt ein, vermutlich nicht gemeinfreies, Porträtfoto.
- 3.Report – Information on the Katyn Forest Incident US-Nationalarchiv NARA.
- 4.Margita Kániková: V znameni púpavy. Fragmenty zo života básnika Andrej Žarnova. Bratislava 2010, S. 8.
- 5.Claudia Weber: Krieg der Täter. Die Massenerschießungen von Katyń. Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, 2015, S. 212
- 6.Mecislav Borák, Zlocin v Katyni a jeho ceské a slovenské souvislosti, in: Evropa mezi Nemeckem a Ruskem. Sborník prací k sedmdesátinám Jaroslava Valenty. Eds. M. Šesták a E. Vorácek. Prag 2000, S. 512.
- 7.Petit Press a.s. Básnik Žarnov oslávil fašistov, lekár Šubík odsúdil Židov.
- 8.Report - Information on the Katyn Forest Incident, 05/01/1952 image 10, US-Nationalarchiv NARA.
- 9.Mecislav Borák, Zlocin v Katyni a jeho ceské a slovenské souvislosti, in: Evropa mezi Nemeckem a Ruskem. Sborník prací k sedmdesátinám Jaroslava Valenty. Eds. M. Šesták a E. Vorácek. Prag 2000, S. 514.
- 10.Report - Katyn Forest Incident, 05/22/1952 images 3, 8, US-Nationalarchiv NARA.
- 11.Taký bol Andrej Žarnov http://nasatrnava.sme.sk, 18. November 2008.
- 12.Poświęcając życie prawdzie, filmpolski.pl (Filmhochschule Lodz)
- 13.Das Pseudonym „Žarnov“ bedeutet im Deutschen „Mühlstein“.
- 14.Sabine Witt: Nationalistische Intellektuelle in der Slowakei 1918–1945, 2015, S. 307–333
- 15.Sabine Witt: Nationalistische Intellektuelle in der Slowakei 1918–1945, 2015, S. 349–352
- 16.Sabine Witt: Nationalistische Intellektuelle in der Slowakei 1918–1945, 2015, S. 362–366. Vollzug des Blutopfers
- 17.Sabine Witt: Nationalistische Intellektuelle in der Slowakei 1918–1945, 2015, S. 351
- 18.Margita Kániková: V znameni púpavy. Fragmenty zo života básnika Andrej Žarnova. Bratislava 2010, S. 70.
- 19.Fotos von dieser Audienz veröffentlichte die in Rom erscheinende slowakische Zeitschrift „Slovenské hlasy z Rima“ am 3. März 1980.
- 20.Sabine Witt: Nationalistische Intellektuelle in der Slowakei 1918–1945, 2015, S. 370–374
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