The National Cemetery in Martin

Martin, Slovakia

Martin is a city in northern Slovakia, situated on the Turiec river, between the Malá Fatra and Veľká Fatra mountains, near the city of Žilina. The population numbers approximately 58,000, which makes it the eighth largest city in Slovakia...

, Slovakia

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 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

Slovaks

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 nation

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 (19th century).

List of notable burials

• Juraj Antal - doctor-physiologist
• Július Barč-Ivan - writer
• Martin Benka
  Martin Benka
  Martin Benka was a Slovak painter and illustrator. He is regarded as the founder of Modernist 20th century Slovak painting...
  
   - painter
• Ján Bodenek - writer
• Emanuel Teodor Bohm - supporter of Slovak literature in the USA
• Mária Bohmová-Dziaková - supporter of Slovak literature in the USA
• Ján Bulík - chairman of Matica Slovenská
  Matica slovenská
  The Matica slovenská Mother) is Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation. It is based in the city of Martin...
  
   in Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
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• Blažej Bulla - architect and folklorist
• Juraj J. Cincík - sacral painter
• Jozef Cíger Hronský - writer
• Samuel Czambel - linguist
• Ferdinand Čatloš
  Ferdinand Catloš
  Ferdinand Čatloš was a Slovak military officer and politician. Throughout his short career in the administration of the Slovak Republic he held the post of Minister of Defence. He was also the commanding officer of the Field Army Bernolák during the Invasion of Poland...
  
   - generál, minister
• Štefan Marko Daxner
  Štefan Marko Daxner
  Štefan Marko Daxner was a Slovak lower nobleman, politician, lawyer, and poet. He was one of the most significant persons in Slovak history of the 19th century. He was a member of the Ľudovít Štúr generation.He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum of Bratislava and at the College of Prešov...
  
   - activist
• Matúš Dula - politician
• Mikuláš Štefan Ferienčík - journalist and writer
• Ján Francisci-Rimavský - activist
• Mikuláš Galanda
  Mikuláš Galanda
  Mikuláš Galanda was a renowned painter, illustrator, and one of the most important pioneers and propagators of Slovakian modern art. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Martin.-Education:* 1914-1916 Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest* 1922 Artistic and Industrial School in Prague Mikuláš...
  
   - painter
• Michal Gašparík
  Michal Gašparík
  Michal Gašparík may refer to:*Michal Gašparík , former Slovak footballer*Michal Gašparík , Slovak footballer and the son of the above...
  
   - author of chronicles
• Želmíra Gašparíková - translator
• Janka Guzová-Becková - singer, collector of folk songs
• Andrej Halaša
  Andrej Halasa
  Andrej Halaša was a Slovakian melodramatic promoter, translator, editor, and ethnographer. He was born in 1852 in Dolný Kubín, and he died in 1913 in Martin. He studied at the elementary schools in Revúca, and in Levoča, and then at the University of Law in Prešov...
  
   - national and cultural worker
• Maša Haľamová - poet
• František Hečko
  František Hečko
  František Hečko is a Slovak football striker who currently plays for the 1. liga club FC Petržalka 1898.-External links:**...
  
   - writer
• Mária Jančová-Hečková - writer
• Naďa Hejná - actress
• Milan Hodža
  Milan Hodža
  Milan Hodža was a prominent Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and in December 1935 as the acting President of Czechoslovakia...
  
   - politician, prime minister of the ČSR
  CSR
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  , acting president of ČSR
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• 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
  Janko Jesenský
  Janko Jesenský was a Slovak lower nobleman, poet, prose writer, translator, and politician. He was a prominent member of the Slovak national movement.- External links :*...
  
   - 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
  Andrej Kmet
  Andrej Kmeť Andrej Kmeť Andrej Kmeť (November 19, 1841, Szénásfalu, Kingdom of Hungary (today Bzenica, Slovakia) - February 16, 1908, Turócszentmárton (today Martin, Slovakia) was a Slovak botanist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and geologist. He identified several new species of plants and created...
  
   - collector, organizer of scientific life
• Jozef Kohút
  Jozef Kohut
  Jozef Kohut is a Slovakian ice hockey player from Trenčín, Slovakia.- The First Decade :During the 93/94 season Kohut made his debut for the Trenčín senior team and his consistent performances in the juniors earned him a place on the 1993 Slovakian European Junior championships team...
  
   - organizer of the fire-brigade movement
• Janko Kráľ
  Janko Král
  Janko Kráľ Janko Kráľ Janko Kráľ (24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) - 23 May 1876 in Zlaté Moravce was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national activist....
  
   - poet
• Štefan Krčméry
  Štefan Krcméry
  Štefan Krčméry was a Slovak poet, literary critic, historian, journalist, translator, and administrator of Matica slovenská...
  
   - poet
• Martin Kukučín
  Martin Kukucín
  Martin Kukučín was a Slovak prose writer, dramatist and publicist. He was the most notable representative of Slovak literary realism, and considered to be one of the founders of modern Slovak prose....
  
   - poet
• Karol Kuzmány - writer
• Andrej Lettrich - director and screenplay writer
• Jozef Lettrich - politician
• 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
  Miloslav Schmidt
  Miloslav Schmidt was born in the family of an innkeeper and baker. After finishing school in Kremnica and completing training at his father's bakery Schmidt became the leading figure of the family business. He also used his skills in the area of culture and national revival...
  
   - organizer of the fire-brigade movement
• Ján Smrek - poet
• Blanka Smreková - poet
• Ivan Stodola
  Ivan Stodola
  Ivan Stodola was Slovak dramatist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš into a family of professional tanners and teachers. He was educated in his hometown, Prešov and Kežmarok, and later, he studied medicine at college in Budapest and Berlin, earning a degree in 1912...
  
   - writer
• Ján Šikura - historian
• Jozef Škultéty - administrator of Matica slovenská
  Matica slovenská
  The Matica slovenská Mother) is Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation. It is based in the city of Martin...
  
  
• Miloš Štefanovič - politician
• Fraňo Štefunko
  Frano Štefunko
  Fraňo Štefunko , was a sculptor, art pedagogue and editor. In 1932 after his studies of art in Prague he moved to Martin...
  
   - 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

• http://urda.blog.sme.sk/c/123704/Narodny-cintorin-v-Martine-2.html
• http://urda.blog.sme.sk/c/111174/Narodny-cintorin-v-Martine-1.html
• http://www.zboray.com/graves/Martin/nc-martin-2003-06-10f.htm
• Zdenko Ďuriška: Národný cintorín v Martine, Pomníky a osobnosti, MS, 2007