František Palacký

František Palacký (June 14th 1798 - May 26th 1876) is a Historien and Politician Czech, born in Hodslavice (Hotzendorf) in Moravie. In 1827, it marries Terezia Mechurova, girl of a landowner.

Life

Descendant of a Protestant family Czech who had maintained his faith in secrecy for the period of religious persecution, František Palacký is the son of a municipal schoolmaster. His/her father sent it to finally make his studies with Kunvald (1807 - 1809) then the Latin school of Trenčín (1809 - 1812) and with the college evangelic Lutheran of Bratislava (until 1818) where Frantisek studied the Slavic languages intensely. He there met the Šafařík philologist and became burning studying in languages Slaves; he is recognized like Polyglotte having a command of 11 languages and having concepts in some others.

After having taught during a few years as private professor, it arrived at Prague, in 1823, where it was engaged and protected by Josef Dobrovský, from which the good relationships with the authority Austrian protected it from the hostility posted by Gouverenement to the students in Slavic questions. Dobrovský presented it to the count František Šternberk (or Franz von Sternberg) who engaged it in his turn to write annals of the Czech history and to write the review of the museum of the Czech history (monthly in German Monatsschrift of the böhmen Museums and quarterly in Czech Časopis společnosti vlastenského museum v Čechách ) founded by Šternberk with, at the head, the idea to support a Czech national revival. It was the first review written in Czech and in German and the Czech edition survived to become the literary body most important of Bohemia.

In 1829, he became archivist and historiographer of the States of the crown of Bohemian with thin contiguous wages but without the approval of Vienna which for this reason sharpened it only in 1838. He undertook, nevertheless, the publication (1836 - 1867) of his capital work, the History of the Czech people into Bohemian and Moravie , first of all published in German and translated thereafter into Czech.

From 1839 to 1844, it fu secretary of the Czech royal Company for education and, of 1841 to 1851, director of the Czech Company muséale.

In 1848, he was elected president of the Slavic Parliament of Prague, at the time of the Printemps of the people, then elected at the Parliament which sat then at Kroměříž (Kremsier) where it defended a federalistic design of the Empire of Austria. He refused the post of minister of education by twice as to take part in the Parlement of Frankfurt by explaining why Slavic does not have to interfere into the German businesses.

In 1850, he became president of the Committee for the creation of the Czech National theater. He was supervised by the police force and found himself insulated. In 1860, it signed the petition-memorandum intended for the Emperor to protest against discriminations, linguistics primarily, whose made the object the Czech people and asked the right to found a political newspaper in Czech language.

In 1861, he is elected at the Czech Parliament.

Vision of the history

Historian of the history of the Czech people, Palacký is especially that by whom the Czech people forga a history and conquered the identity weapons to reach self-determination and, later, his independence. He played a similar part though more fundamental with that played by his contemporary, Jules Michelet in France.

To honor the historian as much as the politician with the Czech national revival, the Université Palacký of Olomouc took again its name.

Works

Important works

Among his important writings one finds:

Wurdigung DER alten bohmischen Geschichtschreiber (Prague, 1830), treating authors and writings then for the majority inaccessible to the students Slavists.
key work: Dějiny národa českého v Čechách I v Moravě, History of the Czech people in Bohemia and Moravie (5 flights, 1836-1867)

1. vol. (up to 1125)
2. vol. (1125-1403)
3. vol. (1403-1439)
4. vol. (1439-1471)
5. vol. (1471-1526)

Archiv český (6 flights., Prague, 1840-1872)
Urkundliche Beitrage zur Geschichte of Hussitenkriegs (2 flights., Prague, 1872-1874)
Documented magistri Johannis Hus vitam, doctrinam, causing… illustrantia (Prague, 1869)
in collaboration with Safarik it writes Anfange DER bohmischen Dichtkunst (Pressburg, 1818) & Die altesten Denkmaler DER bohmischen Sprache (Prague, 1840)
three volumes of its articles and Czech tests is published under the title Radhost (3 flights., Prague, 1871-1873)

Poetries

Na horu Radhošť, At the Summit of Radhost - poem
Má modlitba dne 26. července 1818, My Prayer of July 26th, 1818 - anthem
Ideál říše, Ideal of empire - ode

External bonds

František Palacký (1798-1876) - bibliography

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