ZO ŽIVOTA POPOL: KAROL JAROŇ -- ČESKOSLOVENSKÝ VYDAVATEĽ, TYPOGRAF, BIBLIOFIL A ORGANIZÁTOR.

Czechoslovakia; Slovakia

Karol Jaroň was a notable typographer of the 1930s and 1940s in Slovakia and a founding figure in the development of Slovak typography. His professional life was an expression of the cooperation of two nations united in the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic and, in its entirety and in many partial aspects, it was typical of the Central European milieu of the first half of the 20th century. The authors follow the successfully built career of a talented man, corresponding to the democratic spirit of interwar Czechoslovakia, which went through -- and was consolidated -- by mishaps in his private life, but finally, after 1950, definitively brought to its knees and destroyed by the communist regime. The text is based on family archives and documents as well as autobiographical memories of Jaroň's daughter Dagmar Bílková and is supplemented by photographic documentation of the life stages of Karol Jaroň's family from the family's private archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]