Background
Beckovsky was born and studied in Havlíčkův Brod, Brno, Vienna and Prague.
Beckovsky was born and studied in Havlíčkův Brod, Brno, Vienna and Prague.
In 1685 he entered the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star religious order, in 1688 he was ordained as a priest. Beckovský was in a friendly relationship with another Czechoslovakian writer of that time, Bohuslav Balbín. From 1688 to his death in Prague, he worked as an administrator of the monastery in the New Town, Prague.
