Bohemian actor and playwright, born in Prague, Bohemia, on the 9th of February 1812, where he studied philosophy at the university. He made a very successful début on the stage in 1837, and soon became the star tragedian of the Bohemian theater, appearing in the chief Shakespearean rôles. He translated or adapted a number of plays by Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, and wrote many tragedies: Monica (1846); Zizkova Smrt (1850); Magelsna (1851); Primator (1883); Kralovna Barbara (1884); Mistr Geronym (1886); and comedies: The Veterans (1868); The Ants (1870); The Three Pharaohs (1871). Six volumes of his novels were published between 1854 and 1861.
