Ľudovít Štúr (1815-1856) was the leading figure in the Slovak national renewal, a philologist and codifier of written Slovak. From 1837 to 1838 and from 1840 to 1843 he taught at the Evangelical grammar school in Bratislava. With his philosophy/history lectures he intensified the patriotic fervour of the young Slovak intelligentsia who came to be known by his name as the štúrovci ("Sturites"). In 1846 in the work The Slovak Tongue - or the Necessity of Writing in this Tongue he justified the need for the codification of a new national literary language and with his Manual of the Slovak Language...