People from Banovce Nad Bebravou District - Alexander Dub Ek, Udovit Tur, Karl Sovanka (Paperback)

Chapters: Alexander Dub ek, udovit tur, Karl Sovanka. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: udovit tur (.); October 29, 1815, Uhrovec, nearby Banovce nad Bebravou January 12, 1856, Modra), known in his era as Ludevit Velislav tur, was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language. tur was an organizer of the Slovak volunteer campaigns during the 1848 Revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary, and a member of the Diet of the Kingdom of Hungary, as well as a politician, Slovak poet, journalist, publisher, teacher, philosopher, linguist and priest. The territory of present-day Slovakia had been a part of the Kingdom of Hungary since the 11th century. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, Slovaks were divided concerning the literary language to be used: This situation did not change until the 1840s, when udovit tur became the chief figure of the Slovak national movement. At the same time, modern nations started to develop in Europe and in the Kingdom of Hungary. But the Hungarians favoured the idea of a centralized state, although the Magyar population numbered only some 40% of the population of the Hungarian Kingdom in the 1780s. This was unacceptable to other nations, including the Slovaks, and they expressed their disapproval. In the 1830s a new generation of Slovaks began to make themselves heard. They had grown up under the influence of the national movement at the prestigious Lutheran Lyceum (preparatory high school and college) in Pressburg (Pozsony, modern Bratislava) where the Czech-Slav Society (also called the "Society for the Czechoslovak Language and Literature") had been founded in 1829. Initially, the society opera...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=348170