1862–1872 A boy taught to write in HungarianChlapec, ktorého učili písať po maďarsky

After 1867 the Kingdom of Hungary ran its own half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and its schools ran in Hungarian. Pavol Országh went to the gymnasium at Miskolc from 1862 to 1865, then to the Lutheran lyceum at Kežmarok until 1870, then to the law academy at Prešov from 1870 to 1872. His first poems were written in Hungarian and German, because those were the languages an educated boy was given. Then he chose to write in Slovak instead — a decision that cost him readers, prizes and a career, and is the reason his name is on schools today.Po roku 1867 spravovalo Uhorsko vlastnú polovicu rakúsko-uhorskej monarchie a jeho školy fungovali po maďarsky. Pavol Országh chodil v rokoch 1862 – 1865 na gymnázium do Miškovca, potom do roku 1870 na evanjelické lýceum do Kežmarku a v rokoch 1870 – 1872 na právnickú akadémiu do Prešova. Prvé básne písal po maďarsky a po nemecky, lebo to boli jazyky, ktoré vzdelanému chlapcovi dali. Potom sa rozhodol písať po slovensky — rozhodnutie, ktoré ho stálo čitateľov, ceny aj kariéru, a práve preto je dnes jeho meno na školách.