Jozef Miloslav Hurban (19 March 1817, Beckov – 21 February 1888, Hlboké) was a Slovak nationalist, Evangelist priest, politician, journalist, literary critic and writer. Born into a family of an Evangelist priest, he first attended a local primary school, followed by one in the town of Trenčín. Later he studied at the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava (1830 – 1840), where, under the influence of Ľudovít Štúr, the founder of modern Slovak national ideology, he took an active part in the life of the Slovak nation. He was ordained in 1840 and worked as a priest in Hlboké from 1843. A distinguished...