Martin Kukučín

Matej Bencúr, who signs as Martin Kukučín, was born on 17 May 1860 in Jasenová, in Orava, into a family of free peasants. Trained as a schoolteacher in Kláštor pod Znievom, he taught in his village, then studied medicine in Prague. A doctor in Selca, on Brač, in Dalmatia, until 1907, he married Perica Didolić there in 1904, then left for South America, where he treated the Croatian emigrants of Punta Arenas. Back in 1922, he settled in 1926 in Lipik, in Croatia, died on 21 May 1928 and rests in the national cemetery of Martin.

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• NovelDom v strániMartin Kukučín · 1904not translated into EnglishLiterature