Hugolín Gavlovič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hugolín Gavlovič

Slovak priest, Baroque writer

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1712

Place of Birth: Gmina Czarny Dunajec, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1787

Profession: writer, poet, Catholic priest

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Hugolín 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 Doležal and by Anton Bernolák" (Durovic "The Language of Walaska Sskola" 659).
His most famous piece of work is Valašská škola, mravúv 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.