death_date nationality notableworks birth_date image article_title name
22 october 1885 slovakian simple national slovak tales 16 march 1828 pavol dobšinský.jpg pavol dobšinský
 pavol dobšinský
pavol dobšinský

pavol dobšinský -lrb- 16 march 1828 -- 22 october 1885 -rrb- was a slovak collector of folklore and writer belonging to the period of romanticism and the Štúr generation .
he is perhaps best known for creating the largest and most complete collection of slovak folktales , `` prostonárodnie slovenské povesti '' -lrb- `` simple national slovak tales '' -rrb- , self-published in a series of eight books from 1880 to 1883 .
for his collections , he has often been referred to as a `` slovakian hans christian andersen '' .
