Name Hugolin Gavlovic | Role Author | |
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Died June 4, 1787, Horovce, Puchov District, Slovakia | ||
Hugolin Gavlovic (born as Martin Gavlovic) (11 November 1712, Czarny Dunajec – 4 June 1787, Horovce) was a Slovak Franciscan priest who authored religious, moral, and educational writings in the contemporary West Slovak vernacular, and was a prominent representative of baroque literature in Slovakia.
He wrote didactical-reflexive poetry. His works are written in a West Slovak vernacular which "is situated temporally as well as linguistically between the systems described by Pavel Dolezal and by Anton Bernolak" (Durovic "The Language of Walaska Sskola" 659). His most famous piece of work is Valasska skola, mravuv 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.