A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF COURSEBOOKS IN SLOVAK LANGUAGE IN VOJVODINA BEFORE 1945

Abstract

The paper offers a review of coursebooks that were used in Slovak schools in Vojvodina before 1945, ever since the Slovak migration to this region in 1745. First coursebooks for Evangelists were used, coming from the present-day Slovakia, or coursebooks whose authors were Slovaks living in the region that is the present-day Hungary. The first coursebook in the Slovak language was written by Samuel Borovský in 1853. He was an Evangelistic preacher in the Slovak village of Pivnice. After establishing a publishing house in Bački Petrovac in 1919, coursebooks in Slovak started being published, their authors being teachers from this area. The first reader was composed by Štefan Kvas in 1920 and one of the most frequent authors is Ferdinand Klátik, who wrote seven coursebooks in a short period between 1928 and 1932.