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Samo Chalupka

Died in 1883

Samo Chalupka was born on 27 February 1812 in Horná Lehota, the younger brother of the playwright Ján Chalupka. A pupil at the Evangelical lyceum in Bratislava, he studied theology and philosophy, then broke off his studies to fight alongside the Poles in revolt against Russia, and returned wounded in 1831. The doyen of the Štúr generation, whose movement he joined in the 1840s, and a Lutheran pastor, he published only one collection, in 1868, and died in Horná Lehota on 19 May 1883.

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