He came from Vyšný Kubín in Orava, where he was born in a peasant family on 2 February 1849. After studies at the grammar school in Miškovec and Kežmarok, he graduated from the law academy of the Evangelical College in Prešov between 1870 and 1872. Together with Koloman Banšell, they founded the Kolo association and published the literary almanac Forward. He passed the bar exam in 1875 in Budapest. He worked as a lawyer and judge in his native Orava. From 1902 he devoted himself only to literary activity. At the end of his life he welcomed the establishment of Czechoslovakia and became one of the presidents of the reopened Slovak Matrix in 1919. He died on 8 November 1921 in Dolný Kubín.

He published his first poems as a student. Later he decided to use the pseudonym Hviezdoslav. He wrote mostly reflective, nature and social lyrics. He is known for his Sonnets, Psalms and Hymns, three cycles of Letorostov, Walks in Spring, Walks in Summer and Blood Sonnets, which have been translated into both French and English. Of the epic works, the epics Ežo Vlkolinský and Gábor Vlkolinský, Hájnik's Wife and the drama Herodes and Herodias still resonate. He has translated the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Pushkin, Lermontov, Mickiewicz and Petöfi into Slovak. Hviezdoslav's work is not only varied in genre, but also unusually rich in motifs and ideas, ranging from intimate and family motifs to national and world problems, deepened by social relations and a desire to achieve a high degree of universality. He is rightly regarded as an exceptional personality of Slovak literature.

In Prešov, a street and the regional library are named after him.

Buildings:

Hlavná 16, Prešov - the house where Hviezdoslav lived as a student, today the seat of the children's library Slniečko

Hlavná 137, Prešov - Evangelical College, where Hviezdoslav studied

Slovenská 18, Prešov - Regional library P. O. Hviezdoslav (formerly Levočská 1)

Source: Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Prešov; Micro-project.
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He was born on 12 May 1901 in the Jewish family of the owner of the Berger Hotel in Prešov. He developed his artistic talent during his studies in Prague, Paris and Berlin, where he was employed by one of the largest daily newspapers. As a journalist, he attended the trial of Hitler in Munich in 1923 after his failed putsch attempt. After Hitler came to power, he had to flee Germany. He stayed briefly in Budapest, Paris and Geneva, where he attended meetings of the League of Nations. 

In 1935 he settled in London and began working for the Daily Telegraph. After World War II, he moved to New York, USA, and published in prestigious newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, Life magazine and Le Figaro. In the 1950s, Berger attended United Nations assemblies and drew almost every important leader who appeared there. He portrayed monarchs and famous personalities and film stars in the same idiosyncratic way. 

He created caricatures of Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Dwight Eisenhower, Vyacheslav Mikhailov Molotov, Albert Einstein, John Paul II, Thomas S. Elliot, Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Vivien Leigh and many others. He has captured them all with elegant pencil strokes, with an eye for the uniqueness of the person and the characteristic detail. Alongside his cartoons, he was also a cartoonist of political jokes. 

His prolific work produced several books such as Famous Faces - From the Cartoonist's Sketchbook (1950), My Victims - How to Make a Cartoon (1952), Presidents - From Washington to the Present (1968). Berger's work is also on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Berger died on May 15, 1997, in New York City.

Source: Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Prešov; Micro-project.
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He was born in the family of a teacher in Zvolenská Slatina on 6 December 1872. Already in his childhood he learned to play the piano and the organ. He graduated from the teacher's institute in Kláštor pod Znievom and passed the state examinations in music at the Hungarian Royal Academy in Budapest. He worked as an organist and professor of music in Jagr, Veľký Varadin, Čurgov and Kláštor pod Znievom. 

In 1908 he settled in Prešov and became a professor of music and Slovak at the Hungarian Royal State Teachers' Gymnasium. From 1919 Moyzes was the first Slovak administrator of this school and chairman of the administrative committee of the Šariš County. In 1920 he was one of the founding members of the local branch of the Slovak Matrix. At the same time, he was an administrator and professor at the town music school and in 1921-1929 also its director.

Moyzes established himself as a successful composer, concert artist, choirmaster and conductor of secular and church choirs. He was a pioneer of realistic tendencies in Slovak music and a forerunner of Slovak musical modernism. He composed Missa solemnis in C, Missa in D minor, Little Highland Symphony, Ctibora, Christmas Carol, Orphans, The Forest Maiden, The Devil's River and the orchestral composition Our Slovakia. 

He wrote several textbooks for Slovak schools: a music-theoretical music book, a school songbook for Slovak kindergartens and folk schools, and a small school of singing. He arranged Slovak folk songs, especially from the surroundings of his native Zvolen and from Šariš. He died in Prešov on 2 April 1944 and is buried in the local cemetery. One of the elementary art schools is named after him.

Source: Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Prešov; Micro-project.
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The composer, violinist and conductor Béla Kéler was born in Bardejov on 13 February 1820. After studies in Levoča, Debrecen and Prešov, he was hired as a violinist in the orchestra of the Vienna Theatre in 1845. A year later he published his first opus out of a total of 139 published compositions.

In 1854, Kéler's conducting career began in Johann Sommer's orchestra in Berlin and continued the following season in the Lanner Orchestra in Vienna. From 1856 to 1860 Kéler held the post of Kapellmeister of Count Mazzuchelli's military music. After a brief stint at the head of his own orchestra in Budapest, he left for Wiesbaden, where he lived and worked for the last twenty years of his life.

From 1863 he led the local orchestra of Duke Adolf I of Nassau and later the Spa Orchestra. From 1873 to 1882 he was guest conductor of orchestras in London, Manchester, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Zurich. He died on 20 November 1882 in Wiesbaden, where he is buried.

Source: belakeler.eu
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