Austrian poet, born at Prague, Bohemia, on the 5th of June 1801. He was educated there and at Vienna, and from 1825 to 1857 was librarian at Donaueschingen. His chief works are Poems (1824); Wlasta: A Bohemian National Heroic Poem (1829); and The Cloister: A Narrative Idyl (1833). He died at Prague on the 24th of October 1882.
