Ivan Krasko

Ivan Krasko studied at Czech Technical University in Prague. The recorded working language is Slovak. Positions recorded include member of parliament and Senator of the Czechoslovak National Assembly. Distinctions recorded are Národní umělec and Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, class III.

He was born into a peasant family in Lukovištia, a village in the Gemer (Gömör) region. He studied at the Hungarian grammar school in Rimavská Sobota (Rimaszombat), later at German grammar schools in Sibiu and Braşov, where he graduated. In 1900 he applied for the study of chemical engineering in Prague, where he successfully graduated in 1905. He was a member of the Slovak association Detvan. He worked then for some time as a chemist in the town of Klobuky, later in a chemical factory in Slaný. When the First World War broke out, he went to fight on the Eastern Front against the Russian Empire. After end of the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia and started working as a politician, becoming a member of parliament and a senator of the Agrarian Party. He mostly lived in Bratislava, but in 1943, he moved to Piešťany, where he lived until 1958. He died on 3 March 1958 in Bratislava, and is interred in Lukovištia. There is a memorial room in Piešťany, opened in 1976, dedicated to his life and work. A street in Piešťany is named after him.

• Illustration — Bust of Ivan Krasko in Rimavská Sobota The names in brackets indicate where the work was first published.

• 1896 - Pieseň nášho ľudu, poem (Slovenské pohľady) • 1902 - Deň spásy, poem (Slovenské pohľady) • 1902 - Za búrnej čiernej noci, poem (Slovenské pohľady) • 1905 / 1906 - Lístok, cycle of poems (Dennica) • 1906 - List slečne Ľ. G., poem (Slovenské pohľady) • 1906 - Jehovah, poem (Letopis Živeny) • 1906 - Poznanie, poem (Slovenské pohľady) • 1909 - Nox et solitudo (Latin for app. night and loneliness), the first collection of his poetry (introduction was written by Svetozár Hurban Vajanský) • 1910 - Noc a Ja, poem in prose (Prúdy) • 1912 - Verše, second collection of his poetry • 1913 - Svätopluk, poem (Slovenský denník) • 1952 - Moje piesne, collection of poems • 1961 - Nad ránom..., selection from poetry

• 1907 - Naši, portrait study (Slovenský obzor) • 1908 - Sentimentálne príhody I a II (later named Svadba a Almužna), short prose (Dennica) • 1911 - List mŕtvemu (Slovenské pohľady) • 1932 - Archanjel Michal, nástenná maľba v starobylom kostole na Kraskove, description of part of the fresco decoration (Slovenské pohľady) • 1937 - Pôvod dedín Kraskova a Lukovíšť, study (Zborník Muzeálnej slovenskej spoločnosti)

• 1910 - Richard Dehmel: Vôľa k činu, theoretical essay (Prúdy) • 1911 - Richard Dehmel: Príroda, symbol a umenie, theoretical essay (Slovenské pohľady) • 1956 - Tiene na obraze času, collection of poems translated from the Romanian language

Ivan Krasko was born on 12 July 1876 in Lukovištia. Krasko held the nationality of Austria–Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Krasko was educated at Czech Technical University in Prague. Krasko worked as poet, writer, politician and translator, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them chemist. Krasko held the posts of member of parliament, Senator of the Czechoslovak National Assembly and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly of Czechoslovakia. Krasko worked in Slovak.