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Book/Printed Material Shorthand Notes and Excerpts of Martin Kukučín.

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Title

  • Shorthand Notes and Excerpts of Martin Kukučín.

Summary

  • These shorthand notes and excerpts are in the hand of Martin Kukučín, pseudonym of Matej Bencúr (1860-1928), an important representative of Slovak literary realism. Kukučín worked as a physician in Prague, Croatia, and later in South America. In his literary estate are found, in addition to his original manuscript works in Slovak, records in shorthand script. Kukučín used several different types of shorthand fonts which he enriched with his own shorthand characters. His notes thus were incomprehensible to other readers. In 1943, cryptographer and librarian Ladislav Lorenc undertook to decipher Kukučín's notes. By the time of his death in 1964, Lorenc was able to rewrite most of Kukučin's stenographic records. It is assumed that Kukučín started using stenography in 1910 in his medical practice, while writing prescriptions and documenting medical procedures. Eventually, this type of handwriting came so naturally to him that he used it while writing his literary works, excerpts, and notes.

Names

  • Kukučín, Martin, 1860-1928 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1910 to 1919]

Headings

  • -  Slovakia
  • -  1910 to 1919
  • -  Authors, Slovak
  • -  Shorthand
  • -  Slovak literature

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 262 handwritten pages.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Slovenská národná knižnica (National Project of the Slovak National Library) http://dikda.eu/matej-bencur-a-martin-kukucin/. External
  • -  Original resource at: Slovak National Library.
  • -  Content in Hungarian and Latin and Slovak.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668032

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Kukučín, Martin, Author. Shorthand Notes and Excerpts of Martin Kukučín. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1919, 1910] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668032/.

APA citation style:

Kukučín, M. (1910) Shorthand Notes and Excerpts of Martin Kukučín. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1919] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668032/.

MLA citation style:

Kukučín, Martin, Author. Shorthand Notes and Excerpts of Martin Kukučín. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1919, 1910] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668032/>.