Ján Hollý, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ján Hollý

slovak poet

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1785

Place of Birth: Borský Mikuláš, Trnava Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 14-Apr-1849

Profession: writer, poet, Catholic priest, linguist

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Borský Mikuláš – 14 April 1849, Dobrá Voda) 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.



Alternative names	Jan Vilimek
Description	Austrian-Czechoslovak portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1 January 1860	15 April 1938
Location of birth/death	Žamberk	Vienna
Work location	Prague, Vienna
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