Jozef Miloslav Hurban (19
March 1817 in Beckó
, Kingdom of Hungary (today Beckov, Slovakia
) - 21
February 1886 in Luboka, today
Hlboké, Slovakia
), pseudonyms
Slavomil F. Kořennatý, Ľudovít Pavlovič, M. z
Bohuslavíc, M. Selovský, was a leader of the
Slovak National Council
and the
Slovak Uprising in
1848/1849, a Slovak writer, journalist, politician, organizer of
Slovak cultural life and a Protestant priest. He first supported
Ján Kollár, but later turned to
Ľudovít Štúr.
The city
of Hurbanovo
in southern Slovakia is named after
him.
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