Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka

He started to express himself in the literature during his studies in Kežmarok, where he worked in the student literary alliance.

He wrote and published poems and translations from German language in Fejérpataky calendar and in his own column Slovenský pozorník.

Driencany is one of the oldest villages which was donated by the king to the Balogh family for merits in the mid 12th century.

In the 14th century one branch of the extended family set up their residence here, built a fortified castle and adopted the name after the village – Derencsényi.

The most famous among them were Pavol Emanuel Dobšinský, Ján Cajak, Jonatan Dobroslav Cipka, Ludovít Kubáni and it was also the birthplace of Gustáv Liskay, a professor of geology at the Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica.