Ľudovít Štúr was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language. The central Slovak dialect was chosen as the basis of a literary language. Štúr's codification work was disapproved by Ján Kollár and the Czechs, who saw it as an act of Slovak withdrawal from the idea of a common Czecho-Slovak nation and a weakening of solidarity. But the majority of Slovak scholars, including the Catholics (using Bernolák's codification until then), welcomed the notion of codification. In 1844, he wrote "Nárečja slovenskuo alebo potreba písaňja v tomto nárečí" ("The Slovak dialect or the necessity to write in this dialect"). In 1853 the only compilation of his poetry, "Spevy a piesne" ("Singings and songs") was published in Pressburg.