these attempts, sponsored by the philologist jernej kopitar, were however fiercely opposed by the romantic intellectual circle around matija čop and france prešeren. this debate over orthographic reform became known as the so-called slovene alphabet war ( or "črkarska pravda", ). by the mid-1830s, the supporters of bohorič's script gained their battle against the innovators, also with the support of the czech linguist františek čelakovský. however, criticisms of the "bohoričica" script remained alive.