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Andrej Sládkovič

Died in 1872

Andrej Sládkovič, born Andrej Braxatoris, was born in 1820 in Krupina, into a family of teachers. A pupil at the Evangelical lycées of Banská Štiavnica and Bratislava, he studied theology in Halle, became a tutor to the Bezegh family at Rybáre, then a Lutheran pastor at Hrochoť and, from 1856, at Radvaň, near Banská Bystrica, where he remained until his death. He wrote in the Slovak codified by Štúr and died at Radvaň on 20 April 1872.

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