Janko Kráľ ( hu, Král János; 24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now Liptovský Mikuláš,

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) – 23 May 1876 in

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) was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national activist. Because of his obscure personality, it is not known exactly what he looked like, but several more or less popular supposed pictures of him exist. One of them was used as a model for the statue of Janko Kráľ located in a park called Sad Janka Kráľa (literally Janko Kráľ Garden) in Bratislava -

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. He is buried in the

National Cemetery in Martin The National Cemetery ( sk, Národný cintorín) in Martin, Slovakia, Martin, Slovakia is the final resting place of many important personalities of Slovak history. The list includes writers, poets, national activists, pedagogues, etc. The reason ...

. He was one of the first poets to start writing in the modern

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standard freshly codified (in 1843) by Ľudovít Štúr and his companions. There is a school with his name, Gymnázium Janka Kráľa, located in

Works

*''Zverbovaný'' *''Zabitý'' *''Zakliata panna vo Váhu a divný Janko'' *''Moja pieseň'' *''Pieseň bez mena'' *''Orol'' *''Piesne'' *''Potecha'' *''Pán v trní'' *''Pieseň'' *''Duma bratislavská'' *''Kríž a čiapka'' *''Choč'' *''Krajinská pieseň'' *''Slovo'' *''Duma slovenská'' *''Krakoviaky dobrovoľníkove'' *''Jarná Pieseň''

References

1822 births 1876 deaths Writers from Liptovský Mikuláš Slovak poets 19th-century poets Burials at National Cemetery in Martin People of the Slovak Uprising of 1848–49 {{Slovakia-bio-stub