Dobroslav Chrobák

Who was Dobroslav Chrobák?

Dobroslav Chrobák was a Czechoslovak writer.

He was born in Hybe as the second from four kids in a family of dressmakers. He studied at school in Rožňava and Liptovský Mikuláš, and later at a technical high school in Bratislava. He completed his studies in 1934 at Czech Technical University in Prague. After that, he returned to Bratislava to work as a lecturer. Later, he worked as an editor of radio journalism at Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava, and the last five years as the regional managing director for Slovakia. He died of a cancerous tumour in Bratislava and is buried in Hybe.