Ján Kollár

Ján Kollár was born on 29 July 1793 in Mošovce, into a family of village craftsmen. A pupil at Kremnica, at Banská Bystrica and then at the Lutheran lyceum of Bratislava, he studied theology at Jena from 1817 to 1819, attended the Wartburg festival and met nearby Friederike Wilhelmine Schmidt, a pastor's daughter, whom he married only in 1835. Pastor of the Slovak Lutheran community of Pest from 1819 to 1849, he kept apart there from the Štúr school. Professor of Slavic archaeology in Vienna from 1849 and adviser to the government on Slovak affairs, he died there on 24 January 1852.

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