Kollar

Kollar, JAN, Slavonic poet and scholar, was born 29th July 1793 at Mossocz, in the north-west of Hungary, studied at Presburg and Jena, and in 1819 became pastor of a Protestant congregation at Pesth. His first work was a volume of Poems (1821); this was followed by an enlarged edition of the same entitled The Daughter of Glory (1824), his greatest work. He also published a collection of Slavonic Folk-songs (2d ed. 1832-33), and some books on the Slavonic peoples and languages. He was made professor of Archaeology at Vienna in 1849, and died there, January 24, 1852. See the Autobiography included in his Collected Works (2d ed. 4 vols. Prague, 1868).