Štúr, L'udovít (1815–1856)

Slovak scholar, nationalist, and poet. He was the main advocate of Slovak Romanticism. Although he wrote more in Czech than in Slovak, he was almost solely responsible for creating the Slovak literary language – a construction based on central Slovak dialects – and published his Slovak grammar in 1846. In the 1848 revolution, Štúr led the Slovak armed uprising. More of a poetic theorist than a poet, Štúr published only one collection of his own, Songs and Lyrics 1853.