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4 unusual facts about Pavol Dobšinský


Pavol Dobšinský

He would continue publishing more volumes of this work until 1883, bringing the total up to 90 stories in 8 volumes.

He followed this up with Prostonárodnie obyčaje, povery a hry slovenské (Simple National Slovak Customs, Superstitions, and Plays) in 1880, just five years before his death.

He first published a collection of Slovak tales in Slovenské povesti (Slovak Tales) from 1858 to 1861 in 6 volumes, with a total of 64 stories.

The Salt Prince

The Salt Prince (Slovak: Soľ nad zlato, Czech: Sůl nad zlato, German: Der Salzprinz) is a Slovak fairy-tale movie from a novel by Pavol Dobšinský which is a lesson that salt is necessary for life and more important than gold and emeralds.


August Horislav Škultéty

He also wrote Slovak folk fairy tales together with Štefan Marko Daxner and Čipka, which were collected to the Codex Tisovský and later became the source to Dobšinský Slovenské Povesti.


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