Ján Botto
Ján Botto (27 January 1829, Vyšný Skálnik – 28 April 1881, Banská Bystrica) was a Slovak poet, writer of the Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca. Ján Botto was born into a family of farmers, he began to attend Latin Gymnasium at Ožďany and from 1843 the Evangelical lyceum at Levoča, where he wrote his first literary works. From 1853 he had been engaged as a land surveyor in different towns throughout Slovakia, Zvolen, Martin and Banská Štiavnica.
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Ján Botto
Karel Maixner (1840 - 1881) · Světozor, year 1880, issue 22, digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences · Public domain
- Born
- 1829 · Vyšný Skálnik.
- Died
- 1881 · Banská Bystrica.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Fields
- poetry · literary activity
- Languages
- Slovak
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Ján Botto (27 January 1829, Vyšný Skálnik – 28 April 1881, Banská Bystrica) was a Slovak poet, writer of the Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca. Ján Botto was born into a family of farmers, he began to attend Latin Gymnasium at Ožďany and from 1843 the Evangelical lyceum at Levoča, where he wrote his first literary works. From 1853 he had been engaged as a land surveyor in different towns throughout Slovakia, Zvolen, Martin and Banská Štiavnica.
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He was the youngest member of writers, poets and politicians in the generation of Ľudovít Štúr. Together with Samo Chalupka, Andrej Sládkovič and Janko Kráľ he is one of the most important poets of Slovak romanticism. He died of heart failure on 28 April 1881 in Banská Bystrica. A commemorative plaque, statue and a museum dedicated to his memory are located in Vyšný Skálnik. Poems written by Ján Botto often took inspiration from common Slovak legends and folk tales. An example of which is the poem Pani" (Lady of Čachtice) which recounts the bloody story of the Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory.
• Pieseň Jánošíkova (1846, Jánošík's Song) • Piesne Slovenské (1846, Slovak Songs) • Smrť Jánošíkova (1862, The Death of Jánošík) • Báj Turca (1867, Myth of a Turk) • Žltá Ľalija (1879, Yellow Lily) • Piesne vojenské (1873, Songs of War) • Čachtická pani (Lady of Čachtice)
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1829
Ján Botto born at Vyšný Skálnik.
1881
Ján Botto died at Banská Bystrica.
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- Ivan Krasko (Ján Botto) and the Slovak Association of Detvan in Prague, Pro&Contra, 2019
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