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Studia Historica Nitriensia
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 1
109 – 121
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The article aims to map and analyze the development of Mikuláš Stano´s polonophilic attitudes in the 1920s and 1930s. The principal intention is to detect the beginnings of his Polish orientation and his following activities in this area. Mikuláš Stano was not just a translator, but also a propagator of Polish culture and influence in Slovakia. He began his orientation to Poland with scholarship stays in Jagiellonian University in Cracow and continued by writing to Professor Władysław Semkowicz. Mikuláš Stano remained faithful his polonophilic attitudes to the end of his life.
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The goal of the paper is to show the manifestations and forms of polonophileness of literary historian Stanislav Mečiar (1910 – 1971) in the 1930s. The interwar relations between Czechoslovakia and Poland were tense for almost twenty years. Problems were mainly caused by border disputes in Teschen Silesia, Spiš, Orava and Kysuce, different interests in foreign policy, power competition in the Central European area and attitude towards minorities. In this situation, the interest of young Slovak intelligence in Polish culture and science began to increase in the early 1920s, which was supported by Warsaw, in its efforts to undermine the position of Prague. Stanislav Mečiar, an important literary historian and representative of Matica Slovenská, was one of the young polonophillic oriented Slovaks. His journey to the Polish literature and culture began in the early 1930s, when he went through Professor of Jagiellonian University Władysław Semkowicz, a well-known Slovakophile, on his first scholarship in Zakopane and Krakow. His study trips to Poland continued in the following years, resulting in literary-historical texts and translations published in Slovak periodicals. Later, there was more extensive work on it: Tatras in Slovak and Polish poetry, Hviezdoslav and Kasprowicz and last but not least Poetry and Life. Since the mid-1930s Mečiar, as a representative of Matica slovenská, has maintained close contacts with several personalities of the Polish literature and has been intensively involved in the development of Slovak-Polish cultural cooperation. His polonophillic orientation was not disturbed even by the defeat and occupation of Poland, even though he was an exponent of the regime of the war Slovak Republic, a satellite of Nazi Germany. The paper built on archive materials shows development and forms of Stanislav Mečiar polonophileness.
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