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See also: born at Horeniowes, a See also: hamlet of eastern Bohemia, on the loth of See also: June 1791
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He was sent in 1807 to school at See also: Koniggratz, to escape the conscription, then to the university of See also: Prague, where he founded a society for the cultivation of the See also: Czech language
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At Vienna, where he afterwards studied See also: law, he established a Czech periodical; and in 1813 he made the acquaintance of Josept See also: Dobrowsky, the eminent philologist
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On the 16th of See also: September 1817 See also: Hanka alleged that he had discovered some See also: ancient Bohemian See also: manuscript poems (the See also: Koniginhof MS.) of the 13th and 14th century in the See also: church tower of the
See also: village of Kralodwor, or Koniginhof
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These were published in 1818, under the title Kralodworsky Rukopis, with a See also: German See also: translation by Swoboda
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See also: Great doubt, however, was felt as to their genuineness, and Dobrowsky, by pronouncing The See also: Judgment of Libussa, another manuscript found by 'Hanka, an "obvious See also: fraud," confirmed the suspicion
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Some years afterwards Dobrowsky saw See also: fit to modify his decision, but by See also: modern Czech scholars the MS. is regarded as a forgery
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A translation into See also: English, The Manuscript of the See also: Queen's See also: Court, was made by Wratislaw in 1852
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The originals were presented by the discoverer to the Bohemian museum at Prague, of which he was appointed librarian in 1818
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In 1848 Hanka, who was an ardent Panslavist, took See also: part in the See also: Slavonic congress and
other peaceful See also: national demonstrations, being the founder of the See also: political society Slovanska See also: Lipa
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He was elected to the imperial See also: diet at Vienna, but declined to take his seat
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In the winter of 1848 he became lecturer and in 1849 professor of Slavonic See also: languages in the university of Prague, where he died on the 12th of See also: January 1861
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His chiefSee also: works and See also: editions are the following: Hankowy Pjsne (Prague, 1815), a See also: volume of poems; Starobyla Skladani (1817—1826), in 5 vols.—a collection of old Bohemian poems, chiefly from unpublished See also: manuscripts; A See also: Short See also: History of the Slavonic Peoples (1818) ; A Bohemian Grammar (1822) and A See also: Polish Grammar (1839) —these grammars were composed ona See also: plan suggested by Dobrowsky; Igor (1821), an ancient See also: Russian epic, with a translation into Bohemian; a part of the Gospels from the See also: Reims manuscript in the Glagolitic character (1846); the old Bohemian See also: Chronicles of Dalimil (1848) and the History of See also: Charles IV., by Procop Lupac (1848); Evangelium Ostromis (1853)
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