Author · Slovakia
Janko Kráľ
Died in 1876
Janko Kráľ was born on 24 April 1822 in Liptovský Mikuláš, the son of a butcher. A pupil at the Lutheran grammar school in Bratislava, where he also studied law, he then worked in the office of the lawyer Boleslav Vrchovský in Pest. At the end of March 1848, he led a peasant revolt in Hont with Ján Rotarides; imprisoned in Šahy and then in Pest, he narrowly escaped execution and regained his freedom on 10 January 1849. Employed afterwards in courts and in the administration, dismissed in 1867 after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, he died on 23 May 1876 in Zlaté Moravce and lies in the national cemetery in Martin.
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- PoetryZakliata panna vo Váhu a divný JankoJanko Kráľ · 1844not translated into EnglishLiterature