Ivan Krasko

Ján Botto, who signs as Ivan Krasko, was born on 12 July 1876 in Lukovištia, in Gemer, into a peasant family. A pupil at the secondary schools of Rimavská Sobota, Sibiu and Brașov, where he took his baccalaureate in 1896, he studied chemistry in Prague from 1900 to 1905, then worked in a sugar factory in Klobouky and a chemical plant in Slaný. He first signed Janko Cigáň. Mobilised during the Great War, he served on several fronts, then became a deputy and senator of Czechoslovakia. Retired in 1938 and settled in Piešťany in 1943, he died in Bratislava on 3 March 1958 and is buried in Lukovištia.

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• PoetryNox et solitudoIvan Krasko · 1909not translated into EnglishLiterature