Hugolín Gavlovič (born as Martin Gavlovič) (11 November 1712,

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– 4 June 1787, Horovce) was a Slovak

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priest who authored religious, moral, and educational writings in the contemporary West Slovak vernacular, and was a prominent representative of

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literature in Slovakia.

Career

He wrote didactical-reflexive

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. His works are written in a West Slovak vernacular which "is situated temporally as well as linguistically between the systems described by

Pavel Doležal Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel ...

and by

Anton Bernolák Anton Dif Bernolák; hu, Bernolák Antal; 3 October 1762 – 15 January 1813) was a Slovak linguist and Catholic priest, and the author of the first Slovak language standard. Life He was born as the second child to a lower noble family in the ...

" (Ďurovič "The Language of Walaska Sskola" 659). His most famous piece of work is ''Valašská škola, mravúv stodola'' (originally published under the name ''Walaska Sskola Mrawuw Stodola''), a work of 17,862 verses, nearly all in fourteen syllables, as well as numerous versified couplet-marginalia.

References

* Sabo, Gerald J.: ''Hugolín Gavlovič’s Valaská Škola''. - Columbus, OH, 1988, 730 p.

External links

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Zlatý fond SME - Hugolín Gavlovič
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Obec Pruské - Osobnosti - Hugolín Gavlovič
* 1712 births 1787 deaths 18th-century Slovak people 18th-century poets Slovak poets Slovak Roman Catholic priests People from Nowy Targ County {{Slovakia-writer-stub