Ján Botto

Ján Botto was born on 27 January 1829 in Vyšný Skálnik, into a peasant family. A pupil at the Latin school of Ožďany, then at the Evangelical lycée of Levoča, where he wrote his first texts, he studied surveying in Pest and practised that trade from 1853, in Zvolen, Martin, Banská Štiavnica and Banská Bystrica. His ballads bring to a close the revolutionary and romantic vein of Slovak poetry. He died in Banská Bystrica on 28 April 1881.

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• PoetryThe Death of JánošíkSmrť JánošíkovaJán Botto · 1862Literature