Ján Chalupka was a Slovak

Slovaks

The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...

 dramatist, playwright, publicist and Evangelical pastor.

Life

He was born into a family of Evangelical pastor Adam Chalupka, and wasn't the only member who chose literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

 - his brother Samo Chalupka

Samo Chalupka

Samo Chalupka was a Slovak romantic poet.- Life :Samo Chalupka was a younger brother of Ján Chalupka, another Slovak writer. Samo studied at the Evangelical Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava and also in Vienna. He studied theology and philosophy...

 also chose literature. Chalupka gained education at home, in Ožďany

Oždany

Ožďany is a village and municipality in the Rimavská Sobota District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia. Local high school played an important role in the Slovak history, some important persons of Slovak literary and political life of 19th century made their studies here, like...

, Levoča

Levoca

Levoča is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia with a population of 14,600. The town has a historic center with a well preserved town wall, a Renaissance church with the highest wooden altar in Europe, carved by Master Paul of Levoča, and many other Renaissance buildings.On 28 June 2009,...

, Prešov

Prešov

Prešov Historically, the city has been known in German as Eperies , Eperjes in Hungarian, Fragopolis in Latin, Preszów in Polish, Peryeshis in Romany, Пряшев in Russian and Пряшів in Rusyn and Ukrainian.-Characteristics:The city is a showcase of Baroque, Rococo and Gothic...

, Sárospatak

Sárospatak

----Sárospatak is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, northern Hungary. It lies northeast from Miskolc, in the Bodrog river valley. The town, often called simply Patak, is an important cultural centre.- History :The area has been inhabited since ancient times...

 and studied in Vienna

Vienna

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 and Jena

Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...

. He was a teacher, from 1817 to 1824 a professor at a lyceum in Kežmarok

Kežmarok

Kežmarok is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia , on the Poprad River.-History:...

 and from 1824 until his death a pastor in Brezno.

Works

His main contribution into the Slovak literature

Slovak literature

-Middle Ages:The first monuments of literature in present-day Slovakia are from the time of Great Moravia . Authors from this period are Saint Cyril, Saint Methodius and Clement of Ohrid...

 was in drama. His activities were the impulse for the theatrical life in present-day Slovakia. He wrote mainly dramatic satirical works, where he criticized local patriotism, Magyarization

Magyarization

Magyarization is a kind of assimilation or acculturation, a process by which non-Magyar elements came to adopt Magyar culture and language due to social pressure .Defiance or appeals to the Nationalities Law, met...

 aspects, conservatism, limited life goals etc. His first works were in Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

, but after 1848 he started writing in Slovak

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

 and translated originally Czech works into Slovak.

Drama

Cycle about Kocúrkovo (comedy, "Gotham City"):

• 1830 - Kocourkovo, aneb: Jen abychom v hanbě nezůstali
  • 1832 - Všecko naopak, aneb: Tesnošilova Anička sa žení a Honzík se vydáva
  • 1833 - Trasořitka, anebo: Stará láska se předce dočekala
  • 1835 - Třináctá hodina, aneb: Však se nahledíme, kdo bude hlásníkem v Kocourkově
  • 1837 - Starouš plesnivec anebo Čtyry svadby na jednom pohřebe v Kocourkově
• 1835 - A vén szerelmes, vagy a Tozházi négy völegény
• 1854 - Dobrovoľníci
• 1862 - Huk a Fuk anebo: Prvý apríl
• 1862 - Černokňažník
• 1873 - Juvelír

Prose

• 1836 - Kocourkovo (a prosaic version)
• 1841 - Bendeguz, Gyula Kolompos und Pista Kurtaforint. Eine Donquixottiade nach der neuesten Mode von P. P.

Other

• Geschichte der Generalsynoden beider evangelischen Konfessionen in Ungarn vom Jahre 1791 (History of general synods of both Evangelical confessions in Hungary since 1791)
• Schreiben des Grafen Karl Zay, Generalalinspektors der evang. Kirchen und Schulen Augsb. Konf. In Ungarn, an die Prefoessoren zu Leutschau (A letter of Earl Karl Zay, general inspector of evangelical churches and schools of Augsburg confession in Hungary, to professors in Leutschau
  Levoca
  Levoča is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia with a population of 14,600. The town has a historic center with a well preserved town wall, a Renaissance church with the highest wooden altar in Europe, carved by Master Paul of Levoča, and many other Renaissance buildings.On 28 June 2009,...
  
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• 1842 - Zpěvník evanjelický aneb Písně duchovní staré i nové
• 1846–47 - Kázně nedělní a svátečné

External links

• Ján Chalupka