Ján Kollár

Jan Kollar (into Slovak, Ján Kollár , born the July 29th 1793 with Mošovce and dead the January 24th 1852 with Vienna) was a writer (primarily Poète), Archéologue, scientist and Slovak politician , ideologist of the Panslavisme.

Biography

He studied with the college thérien evangelic Bratislava. Ordered priest, it was used for Budapest then, as from 1849, professor at the university of Vienna (Austria). It was, on several occasions, adviser of the Austrian Government on the businesses relating to the Slovak population .

Kollar joined the Slovak national movement in the first phase of its life.

He considered that there were 4 standard Slavic languages: the Russian , the Polish, the Czechoslovakian and the Serbo-Croatian.

A museum is devoted to him, since 1974, in its native house with Mošovce which burned on August 16th, 1863 partly.

Works

Concurrently to its poetries, it also wrote technical works.

Slávy will dcera (the girl of Sláva): in this work, it expressed its feelings with a woman but this love was transformed into love of the Patrie.
O literární vzájemnosti mezi kmeny has nářečími slavskĭmi (On the literary reciprocity between the tribes Slaves and the Vernaculaire S).

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