Author · Slovakia
Ján Hollý
Died in 1849
Ján Hollý was born in 1785 in Borský Mikuláš. Educated in Skalica, in Bratislava and at the seminary of Trnava, he was a Catholic priest and wrote in the Slovak language codified by Anton Bernolák, serving for most of his life the parish of Madunice, near Piešťany, where he composed his major works. A translator of Virgil, whose Aeneid appeared in full in 1828, he spent his last years at Dobrá Voda, where he died on 14 April 1849.