Gustáv Husák was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989.
Eduard Kukan was a Slovakian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2006. He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004,and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come first,he actually came in third behind the eventual President Ivan Gašparovičand former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar,thus preventing him from contesting the run-off. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009,a position he held until 2019.
Comenius University in Bratislava is the largest university in Slovakia,with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919,shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius,a 17th-century Czech teacher and philosopher.
Rudolf Zahradník was a Czech chemist in the field of quantum chemistry and molecular spectroscopy. He held research positions at the Institute of Occupational Medicine and went on to serve as the first director of the J Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry,president of the Czech Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic,after the Velvet Revolution. During the 1980s,he taught future German leader Angela Merkel,who was then on an internship in Czechoslovakia. He held a doctorate from the University of Chemistry and Technology,Prague.
Jan T. Vilček is a Slovak-American biomedical scientist,educator,inventor and philanthropist. He is a professor in the department of microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine,and chairman and CEO of The Vilcek Foundation. Vilček received his M.D. degree from Comenius University Medical School in Bratislava in 1957;and his Ph.D. in Virology from the Institute of Virology,Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,Bratislava,in 1962.
Josef Paldus,was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo,Ontario,Canada.
LászlóSzarka is a Hungarian historian.
Jur Hronec was a Slovak mathematician.
Emil Benčík is a Slovak writer,journalist and translator. He established the feature radio documentary in Slovakia and created the first family radio series in the country called Čo nového,Bielikovci,which during its 17 years run established itself as one of the most popular programs in Slovakia's history with almost 1 in 2 Slovaks tuning in regularly.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bratislava,Slovakia.
Jozef Heriban is a Slovak writer,scenarist and film director. He devotes his time to literature and film. He is the former President of the Slovak PEN Centre,a Vice-President of the Board of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and a member of the Slovak Film and Television Academy. He was married to well-known television talk show host and former Director of the Slovak Institute in Vienna Alena Heribanováand has two daughters,writer and journalist Tamara ŠimončíkováHeribanováand marketing and PR manager Barbara Jagušák.
Ladislav Deák was a prominent Slovak historian.
Jozef Šesták is a Slovak diplomat,expert on international negotiations in the field of foreign policy and diplomacy. His highest position:State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. His highest diplomatic rank:Ambassador.
Vavrinec Ján Šrobár,known as Vavro Šrobár was a Slovak medical doctor and politician. He was a major figure in Slovak politics in the interwar period.
Anton Štefánek was a Slovak politician and sociologist who was involved in the campaign for Czech and Slovak unity and independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was an important promoter of the concept of Czechoslovakism and served for 14 years in the Czechoslovak National Assembly and the Senate of Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s. He also pursued an academic career at Comenius University in Bratislava,culminating in his serving as rector of the university for several years after the Second World War. He was forced into retirement a year after the Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948.
Ján Stanislav was a Slovak linguist and specialist in Slavic studies.
Rudolf Krajčovič was a Slovak linguist and Slavist,the author of migration-integration theory about the origin of the Slovak language.
Daniel Rapant was a Slovak historian,archivist and university teacher.
Ján Horecký was a Slovak linguist.
