Matuska, Janko

Born: 10/01/1821 Dolny Kubin
Died: 11/01/1877 Dolny Kubin

Janko Matuska was born in Dolny Kubin and studied in Gemer and in Bratislava.

When in 1844, Ludovit Stur was suspended from the board of professors, young Matuska also left Bratislava in protest. His protest was also present in his poem "Nad Tatrou sa blyska" (Lightning over the Tatras), which played an important part in Slovak national life and later became the slovak part of the Czechoslovak National Anthem. It is of course today the Slovak National Anthem.

Matuska wrote patriotic poems and verse, and when in 1844 the literary Slovak language became formalized, he presented his lyrical poems and ballads in the Nitra Almanac.

In 1848-49 Janko Matuska finished his literary activity, and returned to his home town, Dolny Kubin, where he died in 1877.

- Introduction

- Bernolak, Anton

- Caplovic, Vavrinec

- Radlinsky, Andrej

- Hattala, Martin

- Matuska, Janko

- Bohun, Peter

- Hviezdoslav, P.O.

- Kukucin, Martin

- Nadasi, Ladislav

- Florin, Theo

- Medvecka, Maria

- Vojtasak, Jan