National Cemetery in Martin

National Cemetery in Martin
The National Cemetery in Martin, Slovakia is the final resting place of many important personalities of Slovak history. The list includes writers, poets, national activists, pedagogues, etc.
The reason why Martin was selected as the site for the National Cemetery was its role as the center of Slovak culture during the years of formation of the Slovak nation (19th century).
List of notable burials
Juraj Antal – doctor-physiologist
Július Barč-Ivan – writer
Martin Benka – painter
Ján Bodenek – writer
Emanuel Teodor Bohm – supporter of Slovak literature in the United States
Mária Bohmová-Dziaková – supporter of Slovak literature in the United States
Ján Bulík – chairman of Matica Slovenská in Yugoslavia
Blažej Bulla – architect and folklorist
Juraj J. Cincík – sacral painter
Jozef Cíger Hronský – writer
Samuel Czambel – linguist
Ferdinand Čatloš – generál, minister
Štefan Marko Daxner – activist
Matúš Dula – politician
Mikuláš Štefan Ferienčík – journalist and writer
Ján Francisci-Rimavský – activist
Mikuláš Galanda – painter
Michal Gašparík – author of chronicles
Želmíra Gašparíková – translator
Janka Guzová-Becková – singer, collector of folk songs
Andrej Halaša – national and cultural worker
Maša Haľamová – poet
František Hečko – writer
Mária Jančová-Hečková – writer
Naďa Hejná – actress
Milan Hodža – politician, prime minister of the ČSR, acting president of ČSR
Ferdinand Hoffmann – theatrician
Emil Horváth – actor
Ján Hrušovský – writer and journalist
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský – writer
Anna Hurbanová-Jurkovičová – first Slovak actress
A. Ilečka – sculptor
Janko Jesenský – writer
Ferdinand Juriga – activist
Ján Kadavý – activist, publisher and composer
František Kalina – editor and translator
František Kalina Jr. – visual artist
Ján Kalinčiak – writer
Andrej Kmeť – collector, organizer of scientific life
Jozef Kohút – organizer of the fire-brigade movement
Janko Kráľ – poet
Štefan Krčméry – poet
Martin Kukučín – poet
Karol Kuzmány – writer
Andrej Lettrich – director and screenplay writer
Jozef Lettrich – politician
Cyprián Majerník – painter
Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová – writer
Ján Meličko – composer
Hana Meličková – actress
Danko Michaelli – actor
Milan Mitrovský – painter and writer
Pavol Mudroň – representative of the Slovak National Movement
Štefan Nemčok – painter
Karol Novák – conductor
Jozef Pajtaš – eye surgeon
Viliam Pauliny-Tóth – writer, journalist, politician
P. Peressenyi – architect
Ján Petrikovich – doctor
Ambro Pietor – journalist, national activist
Karol Plicka – photographer
Belo Polla – historian
Daniel Rapant – historian
Vladimír Roy – poet
Viliam Ruttkay-Nedecký – painter
Miloslav Schmidt – organizer of the fire-brigade movement
Ján Smrek – poet
Blanka Smreková – poet
Ivan Stodola – writer
Ján Šikura – historian
Jozef Škultéty – administrator of Matica slovenská
Pavol Socháň - writer and photographer
Miloš Štefanovič – politician
Fraňo Štefunko – sculptor
Ivan Štubňa – painter
Dušan Šulc – book graphic artist
Izabela Textorisová – botany expert
Ľudmila Turzová – author of an Atlas of Healing Plants
Eduard Tvarožek – translator
Marián Váross – artistic historian
Jaroslav Vlček – literary historian
Gorazd Zvonický – translator
Sources
Frantisek Zboray's Home Page
Zdenko Ďuriška: Národný cintorín v Martine, Pomníky a osobnosti, MS, 2007
Martin, Slovakia
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