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See also:WENCESLAUS See also:HANKA (1791-1861)
, Bohemian philologist, was 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 See also:escape the See also:conscription, then to the university of See also:Prague, where he founded a society for the cultivation of the See also:Czech See also:language
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At See also: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 See also:century in the See also:
His See also:chief See 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a See also:volume of poems; Starobyla Skladani (1817—1826), in 5 vols.—a collection of old Bohemian poems, chiefly from unpublished See also:manuscripts; A See also:Short See also:History of the Slavonic Peoples (1818) ; A Bohemian See also:Grammar (1822) and A See also:Polish Grammar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 See also:character (1846); the old Bohemian See also:Chronicles of Dalimil (1848) and the History of See also: |
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