WRITER

Jozef Miloslav Hurban

1817 - 1888

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Jozef Miloslav Hurban (Hungarian: Hurbán József Miloszláv; pseudonyms Slavomil F. Kořennatý, Ľudovít Pavlovič, M. z Bohuslavíc, M. Selovský, 19 March 1817 – 21 February 1888) was a leader of the Slovak National Council and the Slovak Uprising in 1848–1849. He was a writer, journalist, politician, organizer of Slovak cultural life, and a Lutheran pastor. He was a supporter of Ján Kollár, and later of Ľudovít Štúr. His son, Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský, followed in his footsteps both as a writer and nationalist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jozef Miloslav Hurban is the 3,560th most popular writer (down from 3,534th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 119th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Slovak Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jozef Miloslav Hurban ranks 3,560 out of 7,302. Before him are Garlieb Merkel, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Nihal Atsız, Lady Ise, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and William Cowper. After him are Jonathan Littell, Robert McKee, Victor Pelevin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Françoise Giroud, and Castor of Rhodes.

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Among people born in 1817, Jozef Miloslav Hurban ranks 55. Before him are Debendranath Tagore, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. After him are Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Charles Dancla, Georgi Pulevski, Édouard Deldevez, and Francesco de Sanctis. Among people deceased in 1888, Jozef Miloslav Hurban ranks 61. Before him are Victoria Benedictsson, Carl Christian Hall, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Princess Marie of Prussia, Turki bin Said, and Philip Henry Gosse. After him are Jules Émile Planchon, Charles Duclerc, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Anna Kingsford, Hippolyte Carnot, and Francesco Faà di Bruno.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Jozef Miloslav Hurban ranks 126 out of 418. Before him are Vladimír Weiss (1939), Viliam Široký (1902), Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Marián Masný (1950), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), and Vladimír Weiss (1964). After him are Pál Szinyei Merse (1845), Pavel Schmidt (1930), Emília Vášáryová (1942), Jan Brokoff (1652), Anna Kolesárová (1928), and Jaromil Jireš (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Jozef Miloslav Hurban ranks 10. Before him are Bálint Balassi (1554), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Imre Madách (1823), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), and Kálmán Mikszáth (1847). After him are Janko Matúška (1821), Samo Chalupka (1812), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Margita Figuli (1909), Vladimir Oravsky (1947), and Lajos Kassák (1887).

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