Pavol Dobšinský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pavol Dobšinský

Slovak poet, writer and children books writer

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1828

Place of Birth: Slavošovce, Košice Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1885

Profession: writer, poet, ethnologist

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Pavol Dobšinský (16 March 1828 – 22 October 1885) was a Slovak collector of folklore and writer belonging to the period of Romanticism and the Štúr generation.
He is perhaps best known for creating the largest and most complete collection of Slovak folktales, Prostonárodnie slovenské povesti (Simple National Slovak Tales), self-published in a series of eight books from 1880 to 1883.
For his collections, he has often been referred to as a "Slovak Hans Christian Andersen".