Celakovsky

Celakovsky, (1) FRANZ LADISLAUS, Bohemian poet, born in Strakonitz, 7th March 1799, died at Prague, professor of Slavonic Philology, 5th August 1852. His principal works are Echoes of Russian and Bohemian Folk-songs (1833-40), and a cycle of love-songs and didactic and political poems (1840). He also translated the works of Herder, Goethe, and Scott.—(2) LADISLAUS, botanist, born in Prague, 29th November 1834, was appointed professor of Botany there in 1880. Besides several monographs on particular genera, he has published a general book on the Bohemian flora (3 parts, 1867-75) and an elucidation of the Darwinian theory.