Ján Hollý
Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Bur-Szent-Miklos – 14 April 1849, Jókő) was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. His predecessors mostly wrote in various regional versions of Czech, Slovakized Czech or Latin.
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Ján Hollý
Jan Vilímek · Humoristické listy, roč. 1885, č. 12, digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences · Public domain
- Name
- Ján Hollý
- Born
- 24 March 1785
- Birthplace
- Bur-Szent-Miklos, Kingdom of Hungary (now Borský Mikuláš, Slovakia)
- Died
- 14 April 1849
- Place of death
- Jókő, Hungary (now Dobrá Voda, Slovakia)
- Occupation
- Poet and translator
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire · Slovakia · Kingdom of Hungary
- Languages
- Czech · Slovak
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Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Bur-Szent-Miklos – 14 April 1849, Jókő) was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. His predecessors mostly wrote in various regional versions of Czech, Slovakized Czech or Latin.
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Hollý translated Virgil's Aeneid and wrote his own epic poetry in alexandrine verse to show that the Slovak language recently standardized by Anton Bernolák was capable of expressing complex poetic forms.
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• Name — Ján Hollý • Born — 24 March 1785 • Birthplace — Bur-Szent-Miklos, Kingdom of Hungary (now Borský Mikuláš, Slovakia) • Died — 14 April 1849 • Place of death — Jókő, Hungary (now Dobrá Voda, Slovakia) • Occupation — Poet and translator
Life
Life
Hollý studied in Skalica (Szakolca), Pressburg (Pozsony) and Trnava (Nagyszombat). He was a Catholic priest at Madunice (Madunicz) near Piešťany (Pöstyén), where he wrote all his major works sitting below a big tree. Hollý was an active member of the Slovak national revival movement. He used the topic of Great-Moravian ruler Svätopluk to encourage the nation, and is regarded as the founding father of Slovak poetry.
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Borský Mikuláš.
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- 1.Non va confuso con altro professore omonimo e parzialmente contemporaneo di lingua e letteratura a Bratislava.
- 2.Štúr, Hurban e Hodža erano protestanti. Fino ad allora cattolici e protestanti scrivevano in lingue differenti: gli uni nella lingua slovacca codificata da Bernolák, gli altri nel ceco biblico.
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