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Ľudovít Štúr

Died in 1856

Ľudovít Štúr was born in October 1815 in Uhrovec. A pupil at the Lutheran lyceum of Pressburg from 1829, then a student at Halle from 1838 to 1840, he deputised for Professor Palkovič in the chair of language and literature until his removal in 1843. From 1845 to 1848 he published Slovenskje národňje novini and its supplement Orol tatranský, sat in the Hungarian Diet for Zvolen in 1847 and 1848, and became the political figure of the Slovak uprising of 1848. Placed under surveillance in Modra from 1851, he died there on 12 January 1856.

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