Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav

Pavol Országh, who wrote under the name Hviezdoslav, was born on 2 February 1849 in Vyšný Kubín, into a family of minor landed nobility. A pupil at the gymnasiums of Miskolc, where he first wrote in Hungarian, and then of Kežmarok, he took his baccalaureate in 1870 and studied law at the academy of Prešov. A lawyer in Námestovo from 1875, a deputy judge in Dolný Kubín in 1876, he returned to Námestovo in 1879 for twenty years. Settled in Dolný Kubín in 1899, he left the profession in 1902. A translator of Faust, of Hamlet and of Madách, a member of parliament from 1918 to 1920, he died in Dolný Kubín on 8 November 1921.

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• PoetryThe Bloody SonnetsKrvavé sonetyPavol Országh Hviezdoslav · 1919Literature