Andrej Žarnov

František Šubík, who signs as Andrej Žarnov, was born on 19 November 1903 in Kuklov. A pupil at the secondary schools of Skalica and Trnava, he completed his medical studies in Bratislava in 1931 and in 1940 became a professor at the institute of pathology. A member of the State Council and head of the health services from 1942 to 1944, he was in 1943 part of the Red Cross commission sent to Katyń. Imprisoned from 1945 to the end of 1947 and sentenced in 1948 to a public reprimand, he practised in Trnava until 1952, then left the country with his family, settled in the United States and died in Poughkeepsie on 16 March 1982.

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• PoetryStráž pri MoraveAndrej Žarnov · 1925not translated into EnglishLiterature