Janko Jesenský

Janko Jesenský ( born December 30, 1874 in Turz -St Martin, Austria - Hungary, . † December 27, 1945 in Bratislava) was a Slovak lawyer, civil servant and writer.

Life

During his school years Janko Jesenský also visited the high schools in Banská Bystrica and Kežmarok. Already here he came with the Slovak national movement in touch, turned against the Magyarization Slovakia by the Hungarian authorities. After graduating Jesenský law school in Prešov, in Budapest and at the University of Cluj in Transylvania, where he received his doctorate. He then worked for several years with attorneys in various towns in Slovakia and worked already as a writer. In 1905 Jesenský put into Budapest from the bar exam. In the same year he attracted with his book of poems verses stir. From 1906 to 1914 he ran in the small town dominated by Hungary Banovce nad Bebravou own law firm, where he led a passionate love affair with the pianist Olga force.

At the outbreak of World War Jesenský was arrested for his involvement proslowakischen of the Austro- Hungarian authorities as a traitor. Because of a disease, however, he came first in a hospital. After the dismissal Jesenský was forcibly recruited and relocated to a short training to the Eastern Front. To the military service in the k.u.k. To escape army Jesenský deserted as many other Czechs and Slovaks. He came first in Russian internment and eventually enlisted in the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia. There experienced Jesenský 1917, the October Revolution with and greeted them as the collapse of the old monarchical order. After the Peace of Brest- Litovsk Jesenský regretted the departure of Russia from the Entente and thus the loss of an ally in the fight against the Habsburg Monarchy. His idea of ​​a Russian liberation of his homeland was not fulfilled. With his influence Jesenský tried to stay out of the Czechoslovak Legion from the Civil War 's Russian. In this course he came to Siberia, from where he eventually to his home, the first Czechoslovak Republic, returned.

Jesenský entered the civil service and became bailiff ( Amtmann ) in Gemer and Nitra. In 1929, he became a civil servant in the State Office of Bratislava, most recently as its Vice President. After the destruction of the Czechoslovak Republic by the Nazis in 1938 and the establishment of the pro-fascist Slovak state under Jozef Tiso 1939 Jesenský resigned from government service and retired from public life. With the resources of the poet he supported the resistance against the Tiso regime and its German allies. After the victory of the Red Army over the Axis powers Jesenský advocated the restoration of Czechoslovakia as allies of the USSR.

Honors and Awards

Works

  • The dog Taraj (1897 )
  • Captain Talapka (1897 )
  • Verses (1905 )
  • Slaves (1905 )
  • Small Town Stories (1913 )
  • The editor (1913 )
  • Mushrooms ( 1913)
  • The Dinner ( 1913)
  • Short Stories ( 1921)
  • On the way to freedom ( memoirs ) ( 1933)
  • The exchange of marriage partners ( 1934)
  • King David (1934 )
  • From Old Times ( 1935)
  • A file, a small file ... (1935 )
  • To a better qualification sake (1941 )
  • Two Bears ( 1941)
  • Fear (1941 )
  • Democrats
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