Jozef Gregor Tajovský

Jozef Alojz Gregor, who signs himself Tajovský, was born on 18 October 1874 in Tajov, near Banská Bystrica, the eldest son of a shoemaker, and grew up largely with his grandparents. Trained at the teacher training college in Kláštor pod Znievom, he taught from 1893 in several villages, often transferred because of his national convictions, then studied at the commercial academy in Prague. A bank clerk, he worked from 1904 to 1910 in Nadlac, among the Slovaks of Romania. Mobilised in 1915, he crossed over on the Russian front to the Czechoslovak legions, then directed the placement of legionaries in Bratislava. He died there on 20 May 1940.

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• TheatreStatky-zmätkyJozef Gregor Tajovský · 1909not translated into EnglishLiterature