PhDr. h.c., univ. prof Jozef Škultéty (1853-1948), literary critic and historian, linguist, translator and journalist. Jozef Škultéty was an editor of Národné noviny and Slovenské pohľady, a teacher at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University, Bratislava, and from 1919 to 1948 head of Matica slovenská, the Slovak national cultural institution. An organising force in Slovak literary life at the end of the 19th century, he popularised the aesthetic principles of realism through his translations from Russsian and his critical writings (in Kritické listy, with Vajanský). His scholarly works (A Hundred and twenty-five Years of Slovak National Life / Stodvadsažpäť rokov...