Å tefan Marko Daxner

Štefan Marko Daxner ( born December 26, 1822 in Tisovec, county Gemer and small Hont, Empire Austria, † April 11, 1892 ) was a Slovak politician, writer and publicist of the so-called Stur - generation.

Life

Štefan Marko Daxner was born in an old lower nobleman family who emigrated from Switzerland to the Kingdom of Hungary in the 14th century. He attended elementary school in Tisovec, then Latin grammar schools in Ožďany, Zipser Neudorf and later in Rosenau, an evangelical lyceum in Bratislava and a legal Lyceum in Eperies before he took his bar exam in 1846 in Pest.

During the revolution of 1848/49 he was a political activist and was involved in the Slovak self-confidence; he was one of the leading figures in the great national meeting in Liptau- Saint Nicholas and contributed significantly to the proclaimed in May 1848 National program Žiadosti Slovenského národa (Requirements of the Slovak nation ). Because of his activities, he was arrested in October 1848 and sentenced to death, but escaped an execution. In January 1849 he was released from prison and was involved then as a captain in the anti-Hungarian Slovak uprising.

After the suppression of the revolution, he worked as a deputy, advisor and juror in the courts in Rimaszombat, Nagykálló and Debrecen and was 1861-65 second sub- team of the county Gemer and small Hont. At the same time he devoted himself to further the Slovak national movement. He contributed significantly to a further National Assembly in June 1861 in Turz -St. Martin and then to the program memorandum národa Slovenského (Memorandum of the Slovak Nation ), which was presented in Vienna's Interior Ministry. In addition, he was one of the leaders and supporters of the existing since 1862 Slovak school in Revúca before it was closed in 1874 by Hungarian authorities again.

From 1872 to his death, he managed his family in Tisovec. Today his remains are buried at the National Cemetery Martin.

Work

Daxner wrote his first literary works in Bratislava Lyceum, where it is principally the ballads and minor prose works. Later he gained Slovak folk tales which have been published in Codex work tisovecký. In later years, he wrote mostly political works. However, a larger collection of his journalistic works appeared only posthumously in 1958.