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 Czech literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The crowning glory of the age was the Kralice Bible, translated by the Czech Brethren and published from 1579 to 1593.
Jan Kollár led the Pan-Slavic revival in the early 19th cent., while Karel Hynek Mácha, considered the foremost Czech poet, expressed a Byronic romanticism developed further by the novelist Bo ena N
ech, Jan Neruda, and Joseph V. Sládek and the novels of Alois Jirásek achieved fame, literature was oriented toward the intellectual and the bourgeois.
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 Czech Renaissance Literature and Humanism
The priest Jan Češka composed a set of moral essays presenting the modern noble ideal, using material mainly from Petrarch, but also Seneca, Cicero, etc. Moral instruction combined with entertainment was achieved in a variety of works, for example by sundry versions of Aesop's fables going back to the 14th century.
Blahoslav edited a great hymn-book of the Brethren (1561), for which his work Musica (1550) was partly a preparation, and he produced an outstanding scholarly translation of the New Testament (1564), which led to the Brethren's complete Kralice Bible (1579-94), the equivalent in Czech of the English Authorised Version.
Another account of such a journey, with famous sea descriptions, was written in the 16th century by the observant and scientifically minded Oldřich Prefát z Vlkanova, and a further account was written at the end of that century by Kryštof Harant z Polžic.
users.ox.ac.uk /~tayl0010/lit_renais.htm   (1716 words)

  
 Unitas Fratrum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jan Blahoslav was prominent among its bishops, who translated New Testament into Czech.
The most prominent personality of this exile culture and a model of a refugee for religion was Jan Amos Komenský - Comenius (1592-1670), bishop of Unitas Fratrum.
Jan Amos Komenský wrote his works in both Latin and Czech and they were concerned mostly in the topics of religion and education.
www3.europole.u-nancy.fr /anglais/RT/czech/4_3_3_1.htm   (278 words)

  
 The Czech Language on WWW
Religious reforms begun by Jan Hus in the early 15th century set in motion the Hussite movement, which for two centuries pitted Czech reformers or Protestants against the Roman Catholic rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Máj group, named in honour of Mácha's great lyrical epic, was a school of writers in the second half of the 19th century who sought to create a Czech literature imbued with their own liberal and pragmatic nationalist aims.
Prominent in their ranks was the poet and short-story writer Jan Neruda, known for his sardonic sketches in Povídky malostranské (1878; "Tales of the Little Quarter").
www.czech-language.cz /fiction/fiction.html   (1664 words)

  
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Bohac, Jan: Mereni sani v nasypu tenzometry a v laboratori (Measuring suction in an embankment by tensiometers and in the laboratory).
Bohac, Jan: Vliv kapilarniho sani a jeho sezonnich zmen na stabilitu nasypu (Influence of seasonally dependent matric suction on slope stability of embankments).
Gruntorad, Jan - Strestik, Jaroslav - Vilhelm, Jan: Atmogeochemicke pole a jeho vztah ke geofyzikalnim a meteorologickym parametrum (Atmogeochemical field and its connection with geophysical and meteorogical phenomena).
lib.natur.cuni.cz /SQL/publ2000.phtml?q=&d=on&w=12&t=0&s=1&y=9999   (7094 words)

  
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Biskup a archivář jednoty bratrské JAN BLAHOSLAV (jinak také Jan Přerovský), autor prvního českého Slabikáře, zemřel v Moravském Krumlově 24.
Jan Blahoslav se osvědčil nejen v pracích jazykovědné povahy, ale také v oblasti básnické a hudební.
Jan Blahoslav pečoval o pokrok a vzdělanost národa, která by byla dostupná pro všechny.
www.znoj-tyden.cz /kultura4704.htm   (4174 words)

  
 Czech Classicists A through L
Jan, Center for Biblical Studies of the Institute for Classical Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 110 00 Praha 1, Na Florenci 3/1420, e-mail: uks@cas.cz; Member of Center for Bible Studies, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Charles University, 115 55 Praha 1, C(h)erna 9, PO Box 529, e-mail: jadus@etf.cuni.cz; Dept.
Frolik, Dr. Jan, Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Institute for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments of the Central Czech Republic, 118 01 Praha 1, Letenska 4, e-mail: arup@cas.cz.
Jan, Fellow of the Center for Medieval Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University, 110 00 Praha 1, Jilska 1, e-mail: cms@flu.cas.cz Also Dept. for Prehistory and the Early Historical Period, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, 116 42 Praha 1, Celetna 20.
www.ceecs.net /CzechCL_A_to_L.htm   (9085 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Pavel Josef Safarik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Since the school in Rožňava specialized in Hungarian and the school in Dobšiná in German, and Šafárik was an excellent student and both schools had a good reputation, all prerequisites for a successful career were fulfilled as early as at the age of 15.
On April 1819, his friend Ján Blahoslav Benedikti helped him to get a doctor's degree, which he needed in order to become head master of a new gymnasium in Novi Sad.
It was Benedicti again, together with some well-known Serbs, who "manipulated" the selection procedure, so that Šafárik, as the youngest applicant, was chosen as the new school head.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pavel-Josef-Safarik   (2516 words)

  
 Czech Republic, philosophy in : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
This movement culminated in the early fifteenth century with Jan Hus, whose philosophy built on the achievements of Wyclif to reach humanistic and rationally critical conclusions.
Jan Jessenius (d.1621), a rector of Prague University who was executed for his part in the anti-Habsburg uprising, was a physician and a follower of Renaissance natural philosophy (inspired by Franciscus Patritius).
Jan Marcus Marci of Kronland was a different type of thinker, a natural scientist rooted in Platonism and Neoplatonism who preached the analogical construction of microcosm and macrocosm – through studying the activity of nerves he arrived at ideas anticipating later associative psychology (see Neoplatonism; Platonism, Renaissance).
www.rep.routledge.com /article/N010SECT1   (1174 words)

  
 Brethren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mennonites often use the terminology Brethren or Mennonite Brethren.
The Moravian Brethren (also known as United Brethren or Unitas Fratum and Bohemian Brethren) descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and mainly Bohemian 15th century nobleman and theologist Peter Chelcicky.
Important leaders were also Jan Blahoslav and Jan Amos Comenius.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brethren   (799 words)

  
 Best Research Book
The Luxomburg dynasty ruled from 1307-45, until the mighty Charles IV came to power in 1346, transferred the center of the Holy Roman Empire to Prague, and left a Kingdom of Bohemia at the end of his reign in 1378.
The author states that Jan Blahoslav led the committee of Bratrska Jednota (church organized in 1457 by the followers of Jan Hus) who prepared an excellent and accurate translation of the Holy Bible (into Czech) compared with Latin, German, and Greek translations.
John of/de/von Hrdlorezy was Jan z Hrdlorezy in Czech, a place reference.
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 Czech Literature for Children by Helena Syrovatkova
It was to teenage students of theology that Jan Blahoslav ascribed his Czech Grammar (Gramatika česká - 1571) with its section of proverbs.
Traditional tale structure is still crucial here but within it the idylic tale-like past acquires connection with the sober present, the borderline between canonical tale elements and modern contribution gets blurred, as well as the distinction between child and adult in audience.
Jan Karafiát's Broučci (Beetles), published in 1876, curiously enough fell into oblivion but were revived, with a lasting effect, twenty years later.
www.phil.muni.cz /~jirka/children/children1/CESKA_HS.html   (5108 words)

  
 Ĉeĥlingva literaturo - Vikipedio
Jan Evangelista KOSINA - Josef JIREČEK - Jaroslav VLČEK - František BARTOŠ - Leandr ČECH - František RYBIČKA - Václav ZELENÝ
NOR - Josef Štefan KUBÍN - Jan DRDA - Edvard VALENTA - Emil VACHEK - Eduard FIKER
Jaroslav KVAPIL - Karel Hugo HILLAR - Arnošt DVOŘÁK - Stanislav LOM - Otokar FISCHER - Jan BARTOŠ - František LANGER - Emil Artur LONGEN - Jiří FREJKA - Jindřich HONZL - Jiří VOSKOVEC - Jan WERICH - Adolf HOFFMEISTER - Emil František BURIAN
eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/%C4%88e%C4%A5lingva_literaturo   (457 words)

  
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—,                                                               ‘Jan Amos Komenský,‘ in Bušek, 1972, pp.
Hendrich, Josef, Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius) (Prague: Orbis, 1948), pp.
Pšenák, Jozef, ‘Johann Amos Comenius 1592-1670,’ in Pšenák, Jozef, Jan Amos Komenský 1592-1670 (Martin: Matica Slovenská, 1991), pp.
www.deutsche-comenius-gesellschaft.de /bibliographien_5.html   (7924 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Czech Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Foremost among the pioneers of this era of resurrection must be mentioned Josef Dobrovský, a Jesuit, and Prof.
Celakovský (1799-1852); Boleslav Jablonský, Catholic priest (1813-1881); Jan Kollar (1793-1852); Vitezslav Hálek (1835-1874); Adolf Heyduk (1835); Svatopluk Cech (1846-1908); Josef Sládek (1854), translated nearly all of the plays of Shakespeare and the principal works of Longfellow, Byron, Burns, Bret Harte, etc. Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853) is the most prolific Bohemian poet.
Bishops Jan Valerian Jirsík (1798-1883), Eduard Brynych (1846-1902), and Antonín Lenz, S. (1829-1901), a master of dogmatic theology, apologetics, Mariology, sociology, and Catholic anthropology.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04598b.htm   (2113 words)

  
 e-metro/listopad 2001
Na své životní pouti spojil Jan Blahoslav střední a jižní Moravu se Slezskem, Čechami, Saskem, Švýcarskem, Východním Pruskem a Vídní.
Syn přerovského měšťana Blažka a jeho manželky Kateřiny Jan byl vychován v duchu víry a životních zásad jednoty bratrské.
Po vzoru ostatních humanistů si i Jan vylepšil příjmení z Blažka na Blahoslava, podobně jako jeho přítel Šimon Kocourek se neméně roztomile latinsky nazýval Felinus.
archiv.e-metro.cz /predesle/listopad2001/index.htm   (1393 words)

  
 Czech and Slovak History: An Annotated Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Essays on Jan Zizka, Petr Chelcicky, and Jan Blahoslav listed in Biographies and Memoirs, essay on Comenius listed in Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius).
Prucha, Jan. "The Difficulty of Instructional Text in the Light of the Views of J. Comenius." In Symposium Comenianum 1982: The Impact of J. Comenius on Educational Thinking and Practice, 1984 [Chapter 4, Kyralova]: 179-82.
Translated from the German original by Eden and Cedar Paul, with additional chapters and bibliographies by Jan Slavik; the former translated and the latter condensed and translated by W.
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Hendrik, count of Brederode held the lordship of Vianen south of Utrecht, Brederode became known as a spirited soldier and succeeded to the family titles in 1556.
This would indicate that his mother was the heir of Eggink farm Land and Jan as blood heir of that land acquired his mothers Eggink name.
Mina Arends was a flower seller with a stand in the Utrecht Central Railway Station, when she met Garrit Jan Eggink the young arborist (tree specialist) from Laren in Gelderland.
www.woodstocknation.org /Egginkbendanann.htm   (2917 words)

  
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The historical context suggests that the "supra-denominational" rationale of religious tolerance in Early Modern Moravia, as phrased in the quoted texts, may be characterized as a political application of a Spiritualist understanding of faith.
One of the most active lay representatives of the Sacramentarian movement, the knight Jan Dubcansky ze Zeden¡na, lost hope for a general reform in Moravia and established his own small "Zwinglian" denomination, the Habrovanites.
Opt t's Sacramentarianism eclectically draws on the native theological traditions of the radical wing of the Bohemian Reformation (the Taborites and the Bohemian Brethren), on the biblical humanism of Erasmus of Rotterdam, and on the Swiss and Upper German Reformation.
www.goshen.edu /mqr/pastissues/july05rothkegel.html   (9307 words)

  
 Noční úvahy
Jan Blahoslav se narodil 20.února 1523 v Přerově v bratrské rodině, v 17 letech byl dán na vychování k bratru Michalcovi do Prostějova, odkud byl v roce 1543 poslán na studia do Goldbergu, kde byla znamenitá škola pro teology, a o rok později do Wittenbergu.
Jan Vartovský z Varty byl pražský měšťan, klasicky vzdělaný, zběhlý v jazyku latinském, řeckém i hebrejském.
Jiným překladatelem byl Jan Efraim, který také studoval v Heidelbergu, později spravoval různé bratrské sbory, od roku 1589 byl biskupem.
www.bloguje.cz /blogy/didactylos/36218_item.php   (2612 words)

  
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The ferment of the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation was not confined to the field of religion alone.
In the beginning of Czech literature in the native language, Jan Blahoslav (1523-1571), literary critic, musical theoretician, historian, and translator of the New Testament, made great contributions to Czech and European culture.
Prose was pioneered by Jan Kalinciak, and by Martin Kukucin, the first important realistic novelist and teacher of later generations of writers.
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/wagner/wagner17.htm   (3571 words)

  
 Jan Blahoslav fue miembro de los Hermanos Bohemios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jan Blahoslav fue miembro de los Hermanos Bohemios, una corriente nacida en el seno del catolicismo en el siglo XV y que más tarde, en la época de la Reforma, derivaría hacia el protestantismo.
Blahoslav estudió en Alemania, donde entró en contacto personal con Lutero y Melanchthon en la sede de la Reforma que fuera la ciudad de Wittenberg.
Como traductor, Blahoslav traducirá al checo el Nuevo Testamento (1564) a partir del griego y cotejando las versiones latinas.
www.proel.org /traductores/blahoslav.htm   (290 words)

  
 THE MORAVIAN CHURCH (UNITAS FRATRUM)
The Bible of Kralice, which had been translated from original languages, was extraordinary important for the preservation and purity of the Czech language for the following four centuries.
Among the most outstanding representatives of the Unity were Lukáš Pražský, Jan Augusta, Jan Blahoslav and also the “teacher of nations“, Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius).
The persecution of Protestants  after the Battle of the White Mountain (in 1620) was for tens of thousands of people the cause for leaving the country.
www.ekumenickarada.cz /erceng/jedbrat.html   (832 words)

  
 Šimsa, Jan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jan Patočka in the Philosophical Institution of the Czechoslovak  Academy of Science in the Years 1958-1968.
Jan Blahoslav and Constituing of Literary Czech Language.
Jan Jonston’s Letters to Samuel Hartlib as the Source of Information about Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius).
www.muzeum.uh.brod.cz /anglicky/02_artikles.htm   (1416 words)

  
 Biblioteca Universalis - NL Prague Contribution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Most frequently, the Historia, originally assigned to Jan Blahoslav, is now considered to be a work of the Boleslav senior Jan Kalef (+1588) or of the bishop Jan Eneáš (+1594).
It seems that in the 17th century it was taken by the count Jan Antonín Schaffgotsch to his library in the Silesian Warmbrunn.
The scribe with the initials J.H.B. who may be identical with the Czech Brethren priest, consenior Jan Hermon (1569-1636), copied for him - in 1631 in Leszno - two historical writings of Václav Budovec z Budova (1551-1621) concerning the struggle for the religious freedom headed by the Czech Utraquist estates in the years 1608-1610.
digit.nkp.cz /BibliothecaUniversalis/BU-list.htm   (3815 words)

  
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století žily nejvýznamnější osobnosti města Přerova: Jan Blahoslav a Jan Ámos Komenský.
Roku 1523 se zde narodil Jan Blahoslav, zvaný Přerovský, nejvýznamnější osobnost a spisovatel Jednoty bratrské, autor české gramatiky.
V letech 1608 — 1611 studoval na zdejší věhlasné latinské bratrské škole Jan Ámos Komenský.
www.zadarmo.cz /index.php?task=va&article=679&lang=1   (769 words)

  
 Ivancice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the 16th century the town prospered thanks to its vineyards, and became the seventh largest town of Moravia.
Another famous period was the time when the town was the home of the Unity of Bohemian Brethren and their head, Jan Blahoslav, the author and publisher of the first Czech translation of the New Testament.
The town of Ivančice was the birthplace of a number of world-famous figures as for example the painter Alfons Mucha, representative of Art Nouveau, and Quido Adler, founder of modern musicology.
www.concentus-moraviae.cz /en/Mesta/Ivancice.htm   (451 words)

  
 The Lollard Society: Bibliography of Secondary Sources
The subject of the paper is a Latin, anti-lollard poem written by John Whethamstede between about 1427 and 1443.
Hus wrote his De Ecclesia in 1413 in order to articulate his criticism of the Christian community of his day and the proclaim his evangelical vision of the Church.
But I will also suggest how an understanding of Wycliffite affinities in Chaucer can lead us to a better appreciation of the poet's aesthetic transformation of the polemical, anti-aesthetic rhetoric associated with Wycliffite discourse--and with the discourse of dissent more generally" (6-7).
www.lollardsociety.org /secondarybib.html   (14396 words)

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