Martin Hattala

Martin Hattala (1863)

Martin Hattala (4 November 1821, Trstená, Kingdom of Hungary (today Slovakia)– 11 December 1903, Prague) 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.

Linguistic publications

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