Who is Ljudevit Gaj and what is his significance to Croatian orthography?
The writer and leader of the Croatian National Renaissance, Ljudevit Gaj (1809-72), resisted Hungarian nationalism and fought for national unity. He put forward the proposal for an orthographic reform (1830), founded in 1835 the Croatian Newspaper (from 1836 the Illyrian Newspaper) and published the proclamation on the adoption of the new orthography and the Štokavian dialect as the Standard Croatian Language (1835).
