Svetozár Hurban Vajanský

Svetozár Hurban Vajanský was born on 16 January 1847 in Hlboké, the son of Jozef Miloslav Hurban. Trained as a jurist and working as a lawyer, he became a journalist in the service of the Slovak cause, which earned him several stays in Hungarian prisons, and from 1906 to 1916 he headed the editorial staff of the Národnie noviny. A poet, novelist and publicist, he was regarded at the end of the nineteenth century as the spiritual guide of the Slovaks, and died in Martin on 17 August 1916.

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• NovelSuchá ratolesťSvetozár Hurban Vajanský · 1884not translated into EnglishLiterature