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{{Verification|date=February 2024}}[[File:Portrait stodola-ivan.jpg|220px|thumb|Ivan Stodola in 1937]]

'''Ivan Stodola''' (10 March 1888 in [[Liptovský Mikuláš|Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš]] – 26 March 1977 in [[Piešťany]]) was [[Slovakia|Slovak]] [[dramatist]] and [[writer]].

==Biography==

He was born in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš into a family of professional tanners and teachers. He was educated in his hometown, [[Prešov]] and [[Kežmarok]], and later, he studied medicine at college in [[Budapest]] and [[Berlin]], earning a degree in 1912. He started as a doctor in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš, and during [[World War I]] he also worked as a wartime doctor. After the war, he returned to his hometown, and became an editor of magazine ''Boj o zdravie'' (Struggle for Health). In 1933, he became a regional health inspector and in 1938 - 1939 worked at the Ministry of Health in [[Prague]]. In 1946 he earned a degree of lecturer of social pathology. In 1951 while he was working in [[Bratislava]], he was illegitimately sentenced and incarcerated for eight years, but he was freed on amnesty two years later. Since 1954, he lived in [[Piešťany]] as a pensioner. In 1967, he earned a title of national artist. He died at the age of 89 on 26 March 1977 in Piešťany. He is now interred in the [[National Cemetery in Martin]].{{CN|date=September 2017}}

==Works==

=== Comedies ===

* 1925 - ''Žarty'' (book form published in 1926)
* 1925 - ''Daňové pokonávanie'' (book form published in 1926)
* 1926 - ''Náš pán minister ''
* 1929 - ''Čaj u pána senátora ''
* 1931 - ''Jožko Púčik a jeho kariéra ''
* 1933 - ''Cigánča ''
* 1941 - ''Keď jubilant plače ''
* 1943 - ''Mravci a svrčkovia''
* 1944 - ''Komédia''

=== Tragedies ===

* 1928 - ''Bačova žena''

=== Historical and romantic plays ===

* 1931 - ''Kráľ Svätopluk''
* 1938 - ''Veľkomožní páni''
* 1941 - ''Marína Havranová '' (book form published in 1942)
* 1946 - ''Básnik a smrť'' (it was later reworked and published in 1974 under name ''Zahučali hory'')
* 1948 - ''Ján Pankrác''
* 1958 - ''Pre sto toliarov''

=== Other dramatical works ===

* 1928 - ''Belasý encián'' (book form published in 1931)
* 1930 - ''Posledná symfónia''
* 1935 - ''Bankinghouse Khuvich and Comp. ''

=== Memoir and autobiographical works ===

* 1947 - ''Bolo, ako bolo''
* 1968 - ''Náš strýko Aurel''
* 1969 - ''Smutné časy, smutný dom''
* 1972 - ''Z každého rožka troška''
* 1977 - ''V šľapajach Hippokrata''

=== Minor book publications ===

* 1933 - ''Z našej minulosti''
* 1947 - ''Štvrťstoročné Železnô''
* 1965 - ''Bolo ako bolo''

=== Filmed works ===

* 1947 - ''Bačova žena'' (under name ''Varuj'')
* 1958 - ''Jožko Púčik a jeho kariéra'' (under name ''Statočný zlodej'')

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.osobnosti.sk/index.php?os=zivotopis&ID=58767 Ivan Stodola] {{in lang|sk}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630113141/http://www.civil.gov.sk/archiv/CASOPIS/2006/13/1326se.htm Ivan Stodola] {{in lang|sk}}
* {{Find a Grave|23160}}

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