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Štefan Krčméry

Štefan Krčméry was a linguist, writer, poet, translator, literary critic and journalist (1892–1955). He was born in Mošovce and died in Pezinok.

Also recorded as Stefan Krcmery

Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955)

Slovenské kníhkupectvo, Praha · The Pictures of Slovak Writers Serie, vol. 1 (Fotografie slovenských spisovateľov, 1. séria) · Public domain

Biography

Štefan Krčméry is recorded as linguist, writer, poet, translator and literary critic.

Catalogued output

Works

  • Prehl'ad dejín slovenskej literatúry a vzdelanosti

  • Prehla̕d dejín slovenskej literatúry a vzdelanosti. Ľudia a knihy

  • Výber z diela

  • Ty a ja

  • Stopätdesiať rokov slovenskej literatúry

  • Veci na dne duše

  • Listy

  • Výber

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Life and career

The full dated record · 2 entries
  1. 1892

    Štefan Krčméry was born in 1892 at Mošovce.

  2. 1955

    Štefan Krčméry died in 1955 at Pezinok.

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  • Mošovce

    Birth place

  • Pezinok

    Death place

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Documents and archives

Literature

Bibliography

Štefan Krčméry (1892 – 1955), Slovenská literatúra, 2025. Štefan Krčméry a slovenská história, Slovenská literatúra, 2025. Slovenská pôda a sila slovenskej zeme: Štefan Krčméry o národnej identite výtvarného umenia, Slovenská literatúra, 2025. Slovak soil and the power of Slovak land: Štefan Krčméry on the national identity of fine arts, Slovenska Literatura, 2025. ZELENKOVÁ, Anna: SLOVAK PROSODY AND VERSIFICATION IN THE MANUSCRIPT OF ŠTEFAN KRČMÉRY (1935), Slovenska Literatura, 2007.

  • Slávni muži – protagonisti próz Štefana Krčméryho (Zimná Legenda), Conversatoria Litteraria, 2021. Štefan Krčméry (1892 – 1955), Slovenska Literatura, 2025. Štefan Krčméry – a Poet, Slovenska Literatura, 2003

  • Legacy, Appeal and Message as Genre Forms of Occasional Lyric (in Poetry by Vladimír Roy, Martin Rázus and Štefan Krčméry), Slovenska Literatura, 2018

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Štefan Krčméry studied at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. The record notes the qualification Doctor of Philosophy.

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