At the age of 72, a long-time man died on Saturday representative of Matica slovenská, worker of the World Association of Slovaks Abroad, culturologist, writer and columnist Stanislav Bajaník. TASR was informed about this on Sunday by the chairman of the World Association of Slovaks Abroad and director of the Slovak House in Prague, Vladimír Skalský.
“He was an excellent intellectual with great insight, especially in the field of Slovaks abroad, and a close friend of many of them,” Skalský said. Stanislav Bajaník was born on October 15, 1952 in the village of Čierne Kľačany. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 1975, he has worked as a museum curator, preservationist or editor. After 1990, he worked on the grounds of Matica slovakska in various forms.
As Skalský highlighted, Bajaník was the author of about 70 radio shows, five documentary films and dozens of journalistic outputs in the media. For years he organized the memory of Milan Rastislav Štefánik.
