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Hollý Ján
(1785—1849)

Ján Holly was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet, who wrote in Slovak exclusively (his predecessors mostly wrote in various versions of Czech, Slovakized Czech or Latin). He studied in Skalica, Bratislava and Trnava. He was a Catholic priest at Madunice near Piešťany, where he wrote all his major... More...

Czechoslovakia, 1955, Ján Hollý

Slovakia, 2000, Ján Hollý