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Prof. PhDr. Štefan Tóbik, CSc., a leading Slovak linguist, pedagogue, and organiser of university education in Eastern Slovakia, is a member of the founding generation of Slovak linguists and dialectologists, formed in the 1930s from the members of the dialectological commission of the Šafárik Learned Society (Učená spoločnosť Šafárikova) headed by the Czech Professor Václav Vážný. This generation was endowed with an honourable task – to lay the foundations of modern Slovak linguistics.