Jakub Grajchman

Jakub Grajchman (25 July 1822 – 9 June 1897) was a Slovak poet, educator, dramatist, and romanticist. He was also a Slovak nationalist.

Biography Grajchman was born Jakub Graichman on 25 July 1822 in Hybe, Austrian Empire (now Slovakia). As a child, he attended school in Kežmarok, Gemer, and Levoča and had Peter Michal Bohúň as a classmate. He then studied Evangelical theory in Bratislava, Halle, and Berlin and attended University of Prešov, where he studied law. He taught in Bratislava and Košice (1848) before moving to Liptovský Mikuláš, where he was a notary and a court assistant until 1854. He was part of the revolutions across the Austrian Empire in 1848-1849. He then worked as a court assistant in Dolný Kubín 1854-1859 before returning to Liptovský Mikuláš, where he became a courtroom advisor.

He wrote many dramas, poems, articles, and plays in German and Slovak, sometimes using the "Štúrovo spirit of a national folk song." Though Grajchman wrote primarily for amateur theatres, Kto zaplatí nohavice? was made into a radio program and a TV performance was broadcast in 1987.