Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka
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Education and early work
He attended the primary school in TisovecTisovec
Tisovec is a town in central Slovakia. Its current population is approximately 4,000.- Location and landscape :Tisovec is situated in the valley of the river Rimava, at the foots of the Muránska planina plateau. The landscape there gives the impression of a small town in the mountains...
. Then he studied at the Lyceum in Kežmarok and Bratislava
Bratislava
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
. Later he continued his University studies in Jena, where he graduated. After the studies, he was an educator at baron Révay in Mošovce. In the years 1845–1847 he was a teacher and evangelistic chaplain in Ratková. Since the year 1847 he worked as a priest in Drienčany
Driencany
Drienčany is a village and municipality in the Rimavská Sobota District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.-History:In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1291 , when here the local feudatory family Derencsény ruled. Derencsény built here their castle, today...
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He started to express himself in the literature during his studies in Kežmarok
Kežmarok
Kežmarok is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia , on the Poprad River.-History:...
, where he worked in the student literary alliance. He wrote and published poems and translations from German language in Fejérpataky calendar and in his own column Slovenský pozorník.
Village Drienčany
The territory in the gate of the canyon-like valley of the river Blh was settled as early as the Neolith, then the Bronze Age and the Iron Age again. Driencany is one of the oldest villages which was donated by the king to the Balogh family for merits in the mid 12th century.The oldest written reference of the village dates back to the year 1291. In the 14th century one branch of the extended family set uo their residence here, built a fortified castle and adopted the name after the village – Derencsényi. They are likely to have built also the Church of All Saints in the second half of the 13th century.
The village was totally destroyed during the Turkish invasion around the year 1560. In the early 17th century it was re-settled and later, in the 19th century Driencany became an important centre of economic and cultural life.
Many poets, writers and folklorist used to visit the village. The most famous among them were Pavol Emanuel Dobšinský, Ján Cajak, Jonatan Dobroslav Cipka, Ludovít Kubáni and it was also the birthplace of Gustáv Liskay, a professor of geology at the Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. For its size, the caldera is known as Štiavnica Mountains. Banská Štiavnica has a population of more than 10,000. It is a completely preserved medieval town...
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Later works
Together with August Horislav ŠkultétyAugust Horislav Škultéty
August Horislav Škultéty was a Slovak writer, pedagogue ethnographer and director of a first Slovak Gymnasium in Revúca.-Early years and career:...
and Štefan Marko Daxner he inscribed number of collected folk fairytales into the so-called Codex Tisovecký, that has belonged to the fundamental streams, sources in publishing of folk fairytales. The fairytales collected by him were issued also in Francisci Slovenské Povesti, or Dobšinský Prostonárodné Slovenské Povesti.
Together with the August Horislav Škultéty, he published funny magazine Zornička, pap magazine for children, which was the basic literary work in the literature for Slovak youth. Here he published a quantity of his own poetry—prose and poesy dedicated especially for children. He was inspired particularly with a fairytale, but he also used his priest
Priest
A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...
and teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
knowledges, which were necessary for moral ending of his work.