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Emil Boleslav Lukáč

Died in 1979

Emil Boleslav Lukáč was born on 1 November 1900 in Hodruša, near Banská Štiavnica. A pupil at the Evangelical lyceum of that town, he studied Evangelical theology and literature in Bratislava, then at the Sorbonne from 1922 to 1924 and in Leipzig in 1928; he took a doctorate in philosophy in 1934. A chaplain in several parishes, he taught at the school of music and dramatic art from 1926 to 1936 and at a girls' lyceum from 1933 to 1947, and in 1940 founded the journal Tvorba. A translator of Ady and Musset, he died in Bratislava on 14 September 1979.

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