National Cemetery in Martin

National Cemetery

Details
Established	1780
Location	Martin, Slovakia
Country	Slovakia
Coordinates	49°03′38″N 18°55′33″E / 49.0606°N 18.9258°E / 49.0606; 18.9258
Type	Public
Owned by
Website	Official Site

The National Cemetery (Slovak: Národný cintorín) 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[]

National Cemetery in Martin

The grave of Janko Jesenský

• – doctor-physiologist
• – writer
• Martin Benka – painter
• – writer
• – supporter of Slovak literature in the United States
• – supporter of Slovak literature in the United States
• – chairman of Matica Slovenská in Yugoslavia
• – architect and folklorist
• – sacral painter
• Jozef Cíger Hronský – writer
• – linguist
• Ferdinand Čatloš – generál, minister
• Štefan Marko Daxner – activist
• – politician
• – journalist and writer
• Ján Francisci-Rimavský – activist
• Mikuláš Galanda – painter
• – author of chronicles
• – translator
• – singer, collector of folk songs
• Andrej Halaša – national and cultural worker
• Maša Haľamová – poet
• – writer
• – writer
• – actress
• Milan Hodža – politician, prime minister of the ČSR, acting president of ČSR
• – theatrician
• – actor
• – writer and journalist
• Svetozár Hurban Vajanský – writer
• – first Slovak actress
• – sculptor
• Janko Jesenský – writer
• – activist
• – activist, publisher and composer
• – editor and translator
• – visual artist
• – writer
• Andrej Kmeť – collector, organizer of scientific life
• Jozef Kohút – organizer of the fire-brigade movement^{[citation needed]}
• Janko Kráľ – poet
• Štefan Krčméry – poet
• Martin Kukučín – poet
• Karol Kuzmány – writer
• – director and screenplay writer
• Jozef Lettrich – politician
• Cyprián Majerník – painter
• Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová – writer
• – composer
• – actress
• – actor
• – painter and writer
• – representative of the Slovak National Movement
• – painter
• – conductor
• – eye surgeon
• – writer, journalist, politician
• – architect
• – doctor
• – journalist, national activist
• – photographer
• – historian
• Daniel Rapant – historian
• Vladimír Roy – poet
• – painter
• Miloslav Schmidt – organizer of the fire-brigade movement
• – poet
• – poet
• Ivan Stodola – writer
• – historian
• – administrator of Matica slovenská
• Pavol Socháň - writer and photographer
• – politician
• Fraňo Štefunko – sculptor
• – painter
• – book graphic artist
• Izabela Textorisová – botany expert
• – author of an Atlas of Healing Plants
• – translator
• – artistic historian
• – literary historian
• – translator

Sources[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Cemetery in Martin.

• 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