The Correspondence of Ján Hollý. On Ján Hollýʼs Relationship with Protestant Authors

Abstract

Korešpondencia Jána Hollého /The Correspodence of Ján Hollý/, edited by Jozef Ambruš, who published it along with valuable and detailed notes in 1967, is the principal source to have when studying the personality of one of the most significant Slovak poets as well as refining the complex image of Slovak cultural and literary life in the first half of the 19th century. Besides other things there can be found important evidence of interconfessional contacts and cooperation between literary active notables from both Catholic and Protestant enviroments. This proves that the still existing myth of the mutual „enmity“ between the two „camps“ based on confessional criteria needs to be dispelled.

Keywords

• correspondence
• contacts
• cooperation
• catholics
• protestants
• language