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Pavol Dobšinský

Died in 1885

Pavol Dobšinský was born on 16 March 1828 in Slavošovce, the son of a Lutheran pastor. He studied at Rožňava and Miskolc, then at the Levoča lyceum from 1840 to 1848, and during the revolution served with the honvéds and then in the imperial army. Secretary to Samuel Reuss in Revúca from 1850 to 1852, chaplain to Ján Chalupka in Brezno, pastor at Rožňavské Bystré, he taught at the Banská Štiavnica lyceum, where he edited the journal Sokol, then after 1861 took the parish of Drienčany, where he died on 22 October 1885.

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