Martin Hattala (4 November 1821 in Trstená, Kingdom of Hungary – 11 December 1903 in Prague)[1] was a Slovak pedagogue, Roman Catholic theologian and linguist. He is best known for his reform of the Štúr's Slovak language, so-called Hodža-Hattala reform, in which he introduced the etymological principle to the Slovak language.

Martin Hattala (1863)

Hattala was a faculty member of the University of Prague.[1] He was also a member of the academies of Bohemia and Russian Empire.[1]

His collection of work was purchased and is now part of the Library of Congress’s Slavic collection.[1]

Linguistic publications

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  • Grammatica linguae slovenicae collatae cum proxime cognata bohemica (Grammar of the Slovak language compared with the most closely related Czech language) (1850)
  • Krátka mluvnica slovenská (A Concise Slovak Grammar) (1852)
  • Zvukosloví jazyka staro- i novo českého a slovenského (Phonetics of the old and new Czech and Slovak language) (1854)
  • O poměru Cyrillčiny k nynějším nářečím (On the relationship of Cyrillic to the contemporary dialects) (1855)
  • Skladba jazyka českého (Syntax of the Czech language) (Prague 1855)
  • Srovnávací mluvnice jazyka českého a slovenského (Comparative grammar of the Czech and Slovak language) (1857)
  • O ablativě ve slovančině a litvančině (On the ablative in Slavic and Lithuanian) (1857-1858)
  • Mnich Chrabr, příspěvek k objasnění původu písma slovanského (Monk Chrabr, contribution to clarify the origin of the Slavic script) (1858)
  • Mluvnica jazyka slovenského I., II. (Grammar of Slovak) (1864, 1865)
  • Počátečné skupeniny souhlásek československých (Initial consonant clusters in Czechoslovak) (1870)
  • Brus jazyka českého. Příspěvek k dějinám osvěty vůbec a slovanské i české zvláště (Antibarbarus of the Czech language. Contribution to the history of the people's education in general and Slovak and Czech in particular) (Prague 1877)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Pivovarov, Eugene (2002). "Alexis V. Babine in the Library of Congress". Slavic & East European Information Resources. 3 (1): 59, 61. doi:10.1300/J167v03n01_06.