Osobnosť a práce Martina Hattalu v oblasti slovakistiky a slavistiky na základe archívnych prameňov
The personality and work of Martin Hattala in the field of Slovak and Slavic studies based on archival fonts

Summary/Abstract: Martin Hattala has become widely known as a codifier of standard Slovak and significant Slavicist. His contacts with European scholars, a creative university environment, his study of Slavic languages and linguistic works in the field of Slavic studies, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbian or Russian, the support and confidence he received from the Catholic intelligentsia were his starting point for the standard Slovak language codification. The historical meaning of Martin Hattala´s work can be seen in his synthetic efforts for the Slovak language benefit and his analytical approach to particular Slavic languages. Martin Hattala is accredited the authorship of the codifying work „Krátka mluvnica slovenská“ [A Short Grammar of Slovak] (1852) that became a valid and obligatory standard up to 1902 when it was replaced by Cambel´s „Rukoväť spisovnej reči slovenskej“ [A Compendium of Standard Slovak Language]. He is the author of some Slavistic works such as „Mluvnica ruská a starobulharská“ [A Grammar of Russian and Old Bulgarian] written in Czech, the study „Kousek čtení o srbčine u korunního prince Rudolfa“ [A Piece of Reading on Serbian at Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria] written in German and „Mluvnica chorvátska“ [A Grammar of Croatian] written in Czech and stored at the Literary Archives of the Memorial of National Literature in Prague.

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