He came from Vy\u0161n\u00fd Kub\u00edn in Orava, where he was born in a peasant family on 2 February 1849. After studies at the grammar school in Mi\u0161kovec and Ke\u017emarok, he graduated from the law academy of the Evangelical College in Pre\u0161ov between 1870 and 1872. Together with Koloman Ban\u0161ell, 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 Doln\u00fd Kub\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 E\u017eo Vlkolinsk\u00fd and G\u00e1bor Vlkolinsk\u00fd, H\u00e1jnik's Wife and the drama Herodes and Herodias still resonate. He has translated the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Pushkin, Lermontov, Mickiewicz and Pet\u00f6fi 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Pre\u0161ov, a street and the regional library are named after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buildings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hlavn\u00e1 16, Pre\u0161ov - the house where Hviezdoslav lived as a student, today the seat of the children's library Slnie\u010dko<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hlavn\u00e1 137, Pre\u0161ov - Evangelical College, where Hviezdoslav studied<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slovensk\u00e1 18, Pre\u0161ov - Regional library P. O. Hviezdoslav (formerly Levo\u010dsk\u00e1 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Pre\u0161ov; Micro-project.
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