Martin Hattala

Martin Hatala (4 November 1821 in Trstená, Kingdom of Hungary – 11 December 1903 in Prague) was a Slovakian pedagogue, Roman Catholic priest, 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.

Hatala was a faculty member of the University of Prague. He was also a member of the academies of Bohemia and Russian Empire.

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

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