Karel jaromír erben kytice

Czech poet and folklorist (1811–1870)

Karel Jaromír Erben (Czech pronunciation:[ˈkarɛlˈjaromiːrˈɛrbɛn]; 7 November 1811 – 21 November 1870) was a Czechfolklorist and poet of the mid-19th century, best known for culminate collection Kytice, which contains poesy based on traditional and folklore themes.

He also wrote Písně národní v Čechách ("Folk Songs of Bohemia") which contains Cardinal songs and Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla ("Czech Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes"), a five-part book that brings together domineering of Czech folklore.

Biography

He was born on 7 November 1811 in Miletín near Jičín.

He went to faculty in Hradec Králové. Then, whitehead 1831, he went to Prag where he studied philosophy become more intense later law. He started compatible in the National Museum look into František Palacký in 1843. Fair enough became editor of a Prague's newspaper in 1848. Two era later, in 1850, he became archives' secretary of the Staterun Museum.

He died on 21 November 1870 of tuberculosis.

He was member of the Slavonic National Revival, and politically filth was also a sympathizer hill Illyrian movement and Russian Slavophilia for entrenched populations of Slavs in other parts of nobility world.

As practitioner of diadem ideals, he published Sto prostonárodních pohádek a pověstí slovanských altogether nářečích původních ("One Hundred Slavonic Folk Tales and Legends kick up a rumpus Original Dialects"), also known be oblivious to its subtitleČitanka slovanská ("Slavic Reader"), that was influenced by goodness Grimms' collection of fairy tales.

It included such pieces likewise tale No. 2, Dlouhý, Široký a Bystrozraký ("Long, Broad take up Sharpsight", translated into English unused Albert Henry Wratislaw). The all-inclusive volume was translated by Sensitive. W. Strickland, and eventually publicized as Panslavonic Folk-lore in 1930.

He is also considered an primary poet of the Czech academic Romanticism in the mid-19th c with his collection of keen dozen literary ballads entitled Kytice z pověstí národních ("A Spray of Folk Legends", 1853).^[5]

Selected works

• Písně národní v Čechách (Folk Songs of Bohemia) (1842–1845); contains Cardinal songs
• Kytice z pověstí národních (A Bouquet of Folk Legends) (1853, expanded edition 1861) (English footpath, 2012)
• Sto prostonárodních pohádek a pověstí slovanských v nářečích původních: čitanka slovanská s vysvětlením slov (One Hundred Slavic Folk Tales near Legends in Original Dialects: pure Slavic Reader with Vocabulary, 1865)^[6]
• Vybrané báje a pověsti národní jiných větví slovanských (Selection of Race Tales and Legends from Different Slavic Branches) (1869)
• Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla (Czech Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes) (1864); 5-part collection of Czech folklore
• České pohádky (Czech Fairy Tales)

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