Ján Hollý
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1785 – 1849
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Who was Ján Hollý?
Ján Hollý was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. His predecessors mostly wrote in various regional versions of Czech, Slovakized Czech or Latin. Hollý translated Virgil's Aeneid and wrote his own epic poetry in alexandrine verse to show that the Slovak language recently standardized by Anton Bernolák was capable of expressing complex poetic forms.
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- Born
- Mar 24, 1785
Borský Mikuláš - Also known as
- Jan Holly
- Died
- Apr 14, 1849
Dobrá Voda, Trnava District
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on July 23, 2013
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