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Ľudovít Štúr
Ľudovít Štúr, also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, philosopher, politician and writer. He was a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century and the codifier of standard Slovak. He is lauded as one of the most important figures in Slovak history.
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culture · Slovak revolutionary, philosopher, politician and writer (1815–1856) · linguist · writer · philosopher · poet · journalist · philologist · activist · politician · historian · opinion journalist · also Ľudovít Štúr, Štúr
Born 28 October 1815 · Died 12 January 1856 · Q315222
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Ľudovít Štúr - Where to Watch
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2003· 1 entry
“National Emancipation, Not the Making of Slovakia: Ludovit Stur's Conception of the Slovak Nation”
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1867· 1 entry
And 1909 (subsequently published in German in 1931, and in Slovak in 1993)
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1856· 1 entry
Died 1856-01-12.
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1853· 1 entry
His platonic female friend, Adela, died in Vienna on 18 March
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1852· 1 entry
Štúr finished his essay O národních písních a pověstech plemen slovanských ("On national songs and myths of Slavic kin"), written in Czech and published in Bohemia the next year
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1846· 1 entry
Štúr got to know the well-situated noble family Ostrolúcky in Zemianske Podhradie (Nemesváralja), who later helped him to become a deputy in the Diet of Hungary in Pressburg
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1844· 2 entries
Other Slovak authors (often Štúr's students) started to use the new Slovak language standard
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Wrote Nárečja slovenskuo alebo potreba písaňja v tomto nárečí ("The Slovak dialect or, the necessity of writing in this dialect")
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1842· 1 entry
Initiated the first Slovenský prestolný prosbopis, a Slovak petition to the Royal Court in Vienna requiring the government to stop national persecutions by the Hungarians in Upper Hungary
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1841· 1 entry
Started activities aimed at publishing a Slovak political newspaper
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1840· 1 entry
Returned to Bratislava via Prague and Hradec Králové (Königgrätz), where he spent some time in the house of publisher Jan Pospíšil
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1836· 2 entries
Studied at Evangelical Lyceum (1829–1836).
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Štúr wrote a letter to Czech historian František Palacký, in which he stated that the Czech language used by the Protestants in Upper Hungary had become incomprehensible for ordinary Slovaks, and proposed the creation of
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1831· 1 entry
Ľudovít Štúr wrote his first poems
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1815· 1 entry
Born 1815-10-28.
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