Ágoston Pável

Although Slovene was his native language, Ágoston Pável graduated with excellence from a Hungarian-speaking high school in Szentgotthárd, being the top student among 28 from 1897 through 1901.

On May 15, 1909, he published a critical essay on two disquisitions by Oszkár Asbóth on Slavic-Hungarian speech forms — one which examined Slavic stem words and the mutations of the sounds "j" and "gy" among Hungarian Slovenes, and another on the academic speech of western Hungary, which had been Pável's research focus.

The first verses of Ágoston Pável were published (in Hungarian) in the newspaper Muraszombat és Vidéke ("Murska Sobota and its district") and (in the Prekmurje Slovene) in "Novine", "Martijin List" and "Kolendar".

The "People's News" of 1986 wrote in commemoration of Pável that he spent his little spare time in the army in collecting popular verse, songs, customs and clothing.

From 1910 to 1911 Pável served a practicum teaching at the academic main high school in the Budapest second district.

In 1916 Pável received a Hungarian Academy of Science award for his work "Modern Standard Slovene."

"With his work the author shows the ambitions that can be noticed in the field of standard language, with great poetic-linguistic expertise and with the basic knowledge of the national Slovene language, which approximates the Slovene that can be found in Austria and differs from it in its popularity" (Academic information sheet, May 1917).

In May 1919 he was elected as a member of the Department of Public Education of Dombóvár and was also appointed to the editorial committee of the local weekly paper.

In 1925 he compiled and published a service directory of cultural organisations for the library of Vas County and the city of Szombathely.

Pável formulated and declared the journal's objective as "a dedication to and an appreciation of the cultural problems in the history of Vas County and west Hungary."

In 1941 the translation of the literary works of Ivan Cankar appeared as part of the series on south Slavic authors.

In February 1941 at the Philosophical Faculty of Szeged University Pável was private tutor for the subjects of South Slavic language and literature, and on September 27 of that year he joined the Janus Pannonius Society.

in May 1945 he was elected president of the local pedagogic "Free Province Organisation" and began work as an official interpreter for Russian in Vas County.