Background
He was born in Hybe as the second from four kids in a family of dressmakers.
He was born in Hybe as the second from four kids in 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 Czechoslovakian 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.