Palacky

Palacky, FRANCIS, a Bohemian historian, was born 14th June 1798, at Hodoslavitz, in Moravia, and studied at Presburg and Vienna. In 1829 he was appointed historiographer of Bohemia, and was charged to write a History of the Bohemian People to 1526 (5 vols. 1836-67), which appeared in both German and Bohemian; it is one of the greatest literary works in the Bohemian tongue, and nationalist through and through. Palacky took part in the political agitation of 1848, and was the leader of the Slav or national party as opposed to the German at the Diet of the Kremsier. Besides his great History he published works dealing with the Hussite period, and with Schafarik edited The Oldest Memorials of the Bohemian Language (1840). He died 26th June 1876 at Prague.