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Milan Ivanka , Bratislava, Czechoslovakia ->
In 1907-1909 he became a member of the Hungarian Parliament. For provoking the Slovaks against Hungary he was condemned as a political criminal to one year prison. In 1918 he was sent to the Czechoslovakian Parliament. From 1918 to 1920 he was General Inspector of the Lutheran Church in Slovakia. Under the title of "Slováci a Madari" (Slowaks and Hungarians) he published a pamphlet describing the part the Slowaks took in the culture and history of Hungary.

Ján Jesensky , Bratislava, Czechoslovakia ->
He is president of the Association of Slovakian Writers in Bratislava.

Dusan Jurkovic , Bratislava, Czechoslovakia ->
He is much interested in the study of Slovakian popular architecture and has studied Slovakian Art. After the breakdown of the Austro Hungarian Monarchy he worked several years with the Minister for Public Instruction and Culture and as Government Commissary. He is entrusted with the maintenance of Slovakian monuments of art.

Stanislav Klima , Prague-Bubenec, Czechoslovakia ->
Before the war he was a teacher and writer at Prague. He wrote especially on Slovakia. After the war came to the Ministry for Public Instruction at Prague and wrote the first textbook for the Slovakian schools.

Milos Ruppeldt , Bratislava, Czechoslovakia ->
In 1919 he was a Slovakian Volunteer for the liberation of Slovakia.

Frantisek Vavrin , Prague, Czechoslovakia ->
He translated into Slovakian: works of Jakub Casanova, Arthur Schnitzler, Fritz Unruh, Arnold Zweig, etc.