Ján Francisci-Rimavský

Ján Samuel Francisci-Rimavský (born Ján Francisci, Hungarian: Francisci János;[1] 1 June 1822 – 7 March 1905) was a Slovak poet, novelist, translator, journalist and politician, who collaborated with the national leader, Ľudovít Štúr and philosophical-legal theorist and ideologist of the Slovak national movement Štefan Marko Daxner.

He worked briefly as a deputy professor at the Lyceum, then became an aide to a member of the Gömör és Kis-Hont County Council.

[3] In 1848, during the Slovak Uprising, he worked with Štefan Marko Daxner to organize the National Guard and was briefly sentenced to prison.

[3] While serving in several other official positions, he was the editor of Pešťbudínske vedomosti (a twice-weekly political journal based in Pest) from 1861 to 1863.

His son Miloslav Francisci [sk] became a composer who wrote the first opera in Slovak (Bohatieri veselej družiny, 1917).