 Gerlachovský štít was not always considered the highest mountain in the Tatras . After the first official measurement of peaks in the Tatras during the period of the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century , Kriváň ( 2 @,@ 494 m ) was considered the highest . Other candidate peaks for the status of the highest mountain at that time were Lomnický štít ( 2 @,@ 633 m ) and Ľadový štít ( 2 @,@ 627 m ) . The first person to accurately name Gerlachovský štít as the highest peak was the forester Ľudovít ( Ludwig ) Greiner in 1838 . Greiner 's measurement was formally confirmed by an Austrian Army survey party in 1868 . However , it was generally accepted only after the Vienna Military Institute for Geography issued a new , authoritative collection of maps of Central Europe in ca . 1875 . 
