 The name that became common in travel books and other literature in the 19th century , however , is its current name , linking the mountain to the village of Gerlachov at its foot . It echoed the oldest known undifferentiated reference to the peaks on or near Gerlachov 's municipal lands , <unk> montes ( Latin with Hungarian elements for the " Gerlachov Village Mountains " ) , in a drawing of the High Tatras from 1717 . It also paralleled the name <unk> <unk> ( Gerlachov Peak ) used by the first person to identify it as the highest peak in the Tatras in 1838 ( see below ) , which was rendered as <unk> <unk> ( Gerlach crest ) in a Slovak version of his report in 1851 . Several other mountains in the High Tatras have acquired their names from villages in the foothills . 
