Bohemian poet, born at Mossovce, Hungary, on the 29th of July 1793. In 1819 he became pastor of a Slavic Protestant congregation at Budapest, and in 1849 ne was made professor of Slavic archæology in the University of Vienna. He wrote poems in the Czech language, which very powerfully influenced the spirit of his race toward an ultimate unification of all nations of Slav blood. In a treatise, Ueber die Literarische Wechselseitigheit Zwischen den Stämmen und Mundarten Slavischer Nationen, he advocates the use of a common Slavic literary language. His best-known poem is a lyrico-epic of 643 sonnets, entitled Slavy Dcera (Slava’s Daughter). It had, and has yet, an extraordinary hold upon all Slavs from St. Petersburg to Prague. He died in Vienna on the 29th of January 1852. See also “Sonnet.” and “The Danube.”
