Samo Chalupka (February 27, 1812 in Horná Lehota (Felsőszabadi), present day Slovakia - 1883 also in Horná Lehota was a Slovak romantic poet.

Life

Samo Chalupka was a younger brother of Ján Chalupka, another Slovak writer. Samo studied at the Evangelical Lutheran Lyceum in Bratislava (Pozsony) and also in Vienna. He studied theology and philosophy.

When an uprising against Russia broke out in Poland in 1830, Samo Chalupka interrupted his long studies and fought on the Polish side. He was injured in 1831 and returned to Bratislava.

He was the oldest member of the Ľudovít Štúr generation of the Slovak national revival. He was one of the founders and active members of the Czech-Slovak Society.

Works

His first poems were written in the so-called Czech biblical language. Later he wrote in Slovak.

Major poem:

• 1864 – Mor ho! (approx. Kill him!)