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HANKA, WENCESLAUS (1791-1861)

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HANKA, See also:WENCESLAUS (1791-1861) , Bohemian philologist, was See also:born at Horeniowes, a See also:hamlet of eastern Bohemia, on the loth of See also:June 1791. He was sent in 1807 to school at See also:Koniggratz, to See also:escape the See also:conscription, then to the university of See also:Prague, where he founded a society for the cultivation of the See also:Czech See also:language. At See also:Vienna, where he afterwards studied See also:law, he established a Czech periodical; and in 1813 he made the acquaintance of Josept See also:Dobrowsky, the eminent philologist. On the 16th of See also:September 1817 Hanka alleged that he had discovered some See also:ancient Bohemian See also:manuscript poems (the See also:Koniginhof MS.) of the 13th and 14th See also:century in the See also:church See also:tower of the See also:village of Kralodwor, or Koniginhof. These were published in 1818, under the See also:title Kralodworsky Rukopis, with a See also:German See also:translation by Swoboda. See also:Great doubt, however, was See also:felt as to their genuineness, and Dobrowsky, by pronouncing The See also:Judgment of Libussa, another manuscript found by 'Hanka, an "obvious See also:fraud," confirmed the suspicion. Some years afterwards Dobrowsky saw See also:fit to modify his decision, but by See also:modern Czech scholars the MS. is regarded as a See also:forgery. A translation into See also:English, The Manuscript of the See also:Queen's See also:Court, was made by Wratislaw in 1852. The originals were presented by the discoverer to the Bohemian museum at Prague, of which he was appointed librarian in 1818. In 1848 Hanka, who was an ardent Panslavist, took See also:part in the See also:Slavonic See also:congress and other peaceful See also:national demonstrations, being the founder of the See also:political society Slovanska See also:Lipa. He was elected to the imperial See also:diet at Vienna, but declined to take his seat. In the See also:winter of 1848 he became lecturer and in 1849 See also:professor of Slavonic See also:languages in the university of Prague, where he died on the 12th of See also:January 1861.

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chief See also:works and See also:editions are the following: Hankowy Pjsne (Prague, 1815), a See also:volume of poems; Starobyla Skladani (1817—1826), in 5 vols.—a collection of old Bohemian poems, chiefly from unpublished See also:manuscripts; A See also:Short See also:History of the Slavonic Peoples (1818) ; A Bohemian See also:Grammar (1822) and A See also:Polish Grammar (1839) —these grammars were composed ona See also:plan suggested by Dobrowsky; Igor (1821), an ancient See also:Russian epic, with a translation into Bohemian; a part of the Gospels from the See also:Reims manuscript in the Glagolitic See also:character (1846); the old Bohemian See also:Chronicles of Dalimil (1848) and the History of See also:Charles IV., by Procop Lupac (1848); Evangelium Ostromis (1853).

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