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Ján Kalinčiak

Died in 1871

Ján Kalinčiak was born on 10 August 1822 in Horné Záturčie, the son of an Evangelical pastor. A pupil at the lyceums of Bratislava and Levoča, then a student of history and philosophy at Halle, and a close friend of Štúr, he took part in the codification of written Slovak. A teacher at the Evangelical gymnasium of Modra from 1846 to 1858, he then headed the German Evangelical gymnasium of Cieszyn, before an early retirement imposed in 1869; he then edited the journal Orol in Martin and died there on 16 June 1871.

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