Martin Hattala

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Martin Hattala (born 1821, Trstená, died 1903, Prague) was 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.

[edit] Linguistic publications

  • Grammatica linguae Slovenicae, collatae cum proxime cognata (1850)
  • Zvukosloví jazyka staro- i novo českého a slovenského (1854)
  • Srovnávací mluvnice jazyka českého a slovenského (1857)
  • Krátka mluvnica slovenská (A Concise Slovak Grammar)
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