The document provides information on several famous personalities from Slovak history, including: - Svätopluk, a 9th century prince of Nitra who expanded the Great Moravian Empire. - Juro Jánošík, a 17th century folk hero known as "the Slovak Robin Hood" who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. - Painter Martin Benka, considered a National Artist who painted over 1,100 works capturing rural Slovak life. - Writer Mária Ďuríčková, known for children's books including the popular twins story "Danka and Janka". - Poet and writer Pavol

1. Famous personalities
of Slovakia
Painters, writers, national heroes
Základná škola s materskou školou Viliama Záborského
Vráble, Slovakia
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2. In this presentation we will talk about the
most famous and popular personalities of our
country – Slovakia.
We are going to start with some famous
personalities of our history.

3. Svätopluk
• He was the prince of Nitra principality in the 9th
century.
• His residence was the Nitra castle.
Nitra is a town located 20km away
of our town Vráble.
• From 871 to 894 he was the 3rd and
the most significant ruler of the Great Moravia.
• During his reign the empire achieved a great rise.
• Date of his birth is unknown and he died in 894.

4. Juro Jánošík (1688 - 1713)
 Juro Jánošík was a Slovak outlaw, folk hero of
the 17th century.
 His main motto was: “Take from the rich and give to the poor“.
 He didn´t like the life of poor slaves so he became the leader of the
outlaw group in the year 1710.
 Jánošík was imprisoned, judged and sentenced to death by hanging
in the town Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš.
 The legend says that he refused amnesty with the words:
"When you baked me so also eat me,"
and he jumped on the hook.

5. • Martin Benka was born on 28th June 1971
in Malacky.
• He was a Slovak artist and an ilustrator.
• He got a title for being a National Artist.
• He painted almost 1,100 paintings and about 150 large-format
oil works.
• In 1939, For 5 - crown banknote was used his study of a girl 's
head and a for 10 - crown banknote his motive of flowers.
• He painted portraits, landscapes, vazes with flowers.
Martin Benka – Slovak painter

6. Painter Martin Benka was searching
for inspiration in the whole Slovakia,
he visited different regions,
where people lived simply,
in touch with nature.
You can find Martin Benka´s museum in the town of middle
Slovakia called Martin as a part of Slovakian national
museum.

7. Some of his artworks

8. Pupils of 4th class tried
to paint some of Martin
Benka´s artworks using
various techniques.
Our artworks

9. Mária Ďuríčková - writer
• Mária Ďuríčková was a Slovak writer,
translator, scenarist and author
of literature for children and youth.
• Her work has been extensive, we will mention
only her most famous works.
• The story of twins – Danka and Janka – is still
very popular even until these days. The book is
designed for younger kids.

10. • A popular novel “Majka Tárajka“
was written for children from the age of 11.
• Some other books for children: Janko Hraško,
Zlatá brána - Gold gate, Zlatá priadka,...
• Her creation focused exclusively on works for children
and youth.
• In her books she managed to show life experiences of
adulting youth, she often used student slang but she
managed to place big importance on character of her
main heroes as well.
Mária Ďuríčková - writer

11. •• The pupils of the 3rd grade have read a story from the book “Danka and
Janka“ together. The book is about twin sisters.
• The story called “Balloon“ was about the celebration of the 1st May – work
holiday.
• They have read the story, talked about it, made illustrations, wrote a short
summary in English together. Here are some of their illustrations.
Our school activity

12. Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
• He is one of the leading
personalities of Slovak
literature and culture in the
end of the 19th and begining
of the 20th century.
• He was a poet, playwriter,
writer, honorary chairman of
Matica Slovenská which
contributed to big development
of Slovak literature.

13. Other Slovak poets and writers
• Other known writers and poets of Slovak literature were: Samo
Chalupka, Andrej Sládkovič, Ľudmila Podjavorinská, Martin Kukučín, ...

14. Pavol Dobšinský (1828 - 1885)
He was the collector of Slovak legends and
stories that later generations of Slovak kids
grew up with. He published over 150 of them.

15. • He was the most significant representative of the
Slovak national life and the leading personality of
the Slovak national revival in the half of the 19th
century.
• He codified standard Slovak language - the
orthography was based on the Central - Slovak
dialect.
Ľudovít Štúr (1815 - 1856)
He was also a politician, poet, journalist, teacher,
philosopher, lingiust and member of the Parliament.

16. • He belonged to significant Slovaks, he was
a politician, diplomat, astronomer, soldier and pilot.
• He contributed to the creation of the common state of the Slovaks and
Czechs, the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
• He was the hero of his time and symbol
of the fight for liberty.
• He is buried in a mound on Bradlo.
• The international airport in Bratislava,
significant honor, a lot of streets, squares were named in his honour.
Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919)

17. • He was a Slovak worker and inventor.
• After he witnessed a flight tragedy in 1912
he invented the parachute.
• His parachute was simple based on the principle
of umbrella.
• On the 3rd of June 1914 Štefan Banič personally
tested his parachute in front of the representatives
of the Patent institution of the USA airforce.
• He jumped off the roof of a 15 storey building in Washington.
Štefan Banič – the inventor

18. Pupil´s artworks

19. • We introduced to you only small part
of famous and significant personalities
of our history and present time.
• We hope you have noticed some information,
because now the quiz follows.

20. Thank you for interest
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