Jozef Cíger-Hronský

Jozef Cíger, who signed himself Hronský, was born on 23 February 1896 in Zvolen, into a family of carpenters. He wanted to paint but became a schoolteacher, trained from 1910 to 1914 at the teacher training college in Levice, served on the Italian front, then taught for about ten years and from 1928 to 1945 edited the children's magazine Slniečko. Secretary of the Matica slovenská in the early thirties, he headed it from 1940 to 1945 and supported the regime of the Slovak State. Exiled by way of Austria and Italy, he designed fabrics in Argentina and died in Luján on 13 July 1960; his remains have lain in Martin since 1993.

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• NovelJozef MakJozef Cíger-Hronský · 1933Literature