Dobroslav Chrobák Explained

Dobroslav Chrobák
Birth Date:16 February 1907
Birth Place:Hybe, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)
Death Place:Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:Slovak

Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907, Hybe  - 16 May 1951, Bratislava) was a Slovak writer.

Life

He was born in Hybe as the second of four kids to a family of dressmakers. He studied at school in Rožňava and Liptovský Mikuláš, and later at a technical high school in Bratislava. He completed his studies in 1934 at Czech Technical University in Prague. After that, he returned to Bratislava to work as a lecturer. Later, he worked as an editor of radio journalism at Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava, and the last five years as the regional managing director for Slovakia. He died of a cancerous tumour in Bratislava and is buried in Hybe.

Selected works