Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
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| Born | Pavel Országh 2 February 1849 Vyšný Kubín (Felsőkubin), Árva County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now in Slovakia) |
| Died | 8 November 1921 (aged 72) Dolný Kubín, Czechoslovakia |
| Resting place | Cemetery in Dolný Kubín |
| Pen name | Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Jozef Zbranský |
| Occupation | poet, dramatist, translator |
| Language | Slovak, Hungarian |
| Nationality | Slovak |
| Spouse | Ilona Országhová |
Pavol Országh de Felsőkubin Hviezdoslav (2 February 1849 - 8 November 1921) was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. First, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism.
Born as Pavel Országh in Vyšný Kubín (Felsőkubin), Orava County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire, Országh became a Slovakian patriot and then continued wroting his poems in Slovakian until the 1860s. He was of noble origin. He studied in Miskolc, Kežmarok (Késmárk), Budapest, and Prešov (Eperjes). Hviezdoslav (a Slavic name, meaning approximately "celebrating the stars" and/or "Slav of the stars") was his pseudonym from 1875. His earlier pseudonym was Jozef Zbranský.
Hviezdoslav studied at grammar schools in Miskolc and Kežmarok (Késmárk). After his graduation in 1870, he continued his studies at the Law Academy of Prešov (Eperjes), where in 1871 he participated in the preparation of the Almanach Napred ("Forward" Miscellany/Almanac), which marked the beginning of a new literary generation in Slovak literature. Due to his contribution to this Almanac with several radical poems, however, he was ignored in the literary life of the country for the rest of the 1870s and couldn't get his works published. During this period, he pursued his law career in Dolný Kubín, but he also carried on with his literary work in his free time. He practiced as a lawyer between 1875 and 1899 in Námestovo (Námesztó), and then in Dolný Kubín again. In 1918, he became a member of the newly created Revolutionary National Assembly (provisional governing body, later parliament) in Prague, and from 1919 to 1920, served as its representative. In 1919, he was chosen as the leader of the re-established Matica slovenská (see below). In 1954, the Literary Museum of P. O. Hviezdoslav was established in Dolný Kubín. A festival of amateur poetry reciters named Hviezdoslav's Kubín has been held there since.
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