Jozef Miloslav Hurban

Jozef Miloslav Hurban ( born March 19, 1817 in Nové Mesto nad Beckov at Váhom, West Slovakia, then Kingdom of Hungary, † February 21, 1888 in Hlboké at Senica ) was a Slovak writer, journalist and politician, first president of the first Slovak National Council and a the leading personalities of the Slovak uprising of 1848 / 49th

Life

Hurban was born in the family of Protestant minister Pavol Hurban and actress Anna Hurbanová - Jurkovičová. He studied at a school in the nearby Trenčín (1826-1830) as well as an evangelical lyceum in Bratislava ( 1830-1840 ). Here he learned Ľudovít Štúr know. He wanted to continue his studies in Germany, but had to because of money problems first as a chaplain in Brezová pod Bradlom (1840-1843) and a Protestant pastor in Hlboké (1843-1888) work before 1860 received the doctoral degree in theology at the University of Leipzig.

From about the year 1835, he participated with Ľudovít Štúr and Michal Miloslav Hodža the Slovak cultural life. In the years 1837-1840 he was a member of the secret society Vzájomnosť. During this time he wrote exclusively in biblical Czech, after a meeting in 1843 in Hlboké with Stur and Hodža but he was a supporter of the new language standards of Stur. In the published literature of Hurban Almanac " Nitra " in 1844 this standard was published.

In the revolutions of 1848/49 he was one of the leaders of the Slovak uprising. On April 28, 1848, a large meeting was held in Brezová pod Bradlom where Hurban proclaimed the Nitrianske žiadosti ( Nitransky requirements). Following a national revolutionary program that Žiadosti Slovenského národa (claims of the Slovak nation ) was proclaimed in May Liptau Mikuláš, which were provided to the Government of Hungary.

Because of his activities, he was forced to flee to Bohemia to escape an arrest warrant. There he participated in the Slav Congress in Prague. After the suppression of the revolution, he could not participate in political life in the 1850s, so he only wrote about church issues. Only in the late 1850s he returned to politics back and participated in drafting the memorandum národa Slovenského (Memorandum of the Slovak Nation ), which in 1861 addressed to the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna, and was one of the founders of Matica Slovenská in 1863.

After the Austro- Hungarian Compromise in 1867, he was twice for his articles against the Hungarian Nationality Act and for political activity in prison ( December 1869 to May 1870 and from April to June 1876). He then tried in subsequent editions of the almanac Nitra (1877 /78) to demonstrate the Czechoslovak literary unity, but this was considered an experiment survived. He died on 21 February 1888 in Hlboké.

Hurban was related to Daniel Sloboda.

The southern Slovakian town Hurbanovo (previously Stara DALA ) in 1948 named in his honor so.

Works (selection)

Prose

Poetry

Travel reports

Articles and Biographies

• Comú nás Ucia Dejiny ("What history teaches us " )
• Hlasy proti slovencine ( " votes against the Slovak " )
• Slovensko a jeho život Litérarní ( "Slovakia and her literary life " )
• Nauka náboženství křesťanského ( "Christian Religious Education " )
• Karel Stur, a biography
• Viliam Pauliny - Tóth a jeho doba ( " Viliam Paulíny - Tóth and his time" )
• Ľudovít Štúr I - IV, a biography
• Ľudovít Stur - Rozpomienky revolučné na roky 1848/1849 ( " Ľudovít Stur - memories of the revolutionary years 1848/1849 " )