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Ján Brezina

Ján Brezina (1 January 1917 in Východná – 4 August 1997 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, literary historian and theoretician. He was an employee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences starting in 1943, of the Slovak Matica and from 1970 - 1973 director of the Institute for Literal History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Also recorded as Jan Brezina

Ján Brezina

Born
1917
Died
1997

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Ján Brezina lived from 1 January 1917 to 4 August 1997 and was a writer and historiographer.

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Ján Brezina was born on 1 January 1917 in Východná, Slovakia. Ján Brezina died on 4 August 1997 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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