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Král Janko
(1822—1876)

Slovak poet, jurist, revolutionary. Janko Kráľ has become the most celebrated, both for his poems and for his biography. In 1848, he joined a teacher friend in southern Slovakia, rousing the local villagers to overthrow the landowners. Held in Šahy and Budapest, after release he later became involved with pro-Habsburg anti-Hungarian volunteers. After the Hungarian defeat, Kráľ joined government service and virtually stopped writing. His best known poems are ballad-inspired verses, in which folk idiom combines with a central Romantic figure, divný Janko, "strange Janko", a solitary withdrawn hero, alienated from his surroundings, aspiring to soar eagle-like to freedom, but falling into suicidal melancholy.

Czechoslovakia, 1968, Janko Kral and Liptovsky Mikulas

Czechoslovakia, 1972, Janko Král

Czechoslovakia, 1972.06.14, Bratislava. Mountains