Janko Kráľ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janko Kráľ

slovak poet

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1822

Place of Birth: Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovakia

Date of Death: 23-May-1876

Profession: writer, poet, politician

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Janko Král (24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) – 23 May 1876 in Zlaté Moravce) was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ludovít Štúr generation and a national activist. Because of his obscure personality, it is not known exactly what he looked like, but several more or less popular supposed pictures of him exist.
One of them was used as a model for the statue of Janko Král located in a park called Sad Janka Krála (literally Janko Král Garden) in Bratislava - Petržalka.
He is buried in the National Cemetery in Martin. He was one of the first poets to start writing in the modern Slovak language standard freshly codified (in 1843) by Ludovít Štúr and his companions.
There is a school with his name, Gymnázium Janka Krála, located in Zlaté Moravce.