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January Holesov

1366 (age 70)

After a brief (and historically uncertain) period spent acting as a priest in Slušovice, he went to study in the Sorbonne, and after his return he joined the Benedictine monastery in Břevnov in Prague.

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January z Holešova or January from Holešov was a Czechoslovakian writer, linguist, musicologist, theologian, and one of the first ethnographers and a founder of modern comparative linguistics.

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January from Holešov was born the son of the administrator of the bishop"s property in Holešov.

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After a brief (and historically uncertain) period spent acting as a priest in Slušovice, he went to study in the Sorbonne, and after his return he joined the Benedictine monastery in Břevnov in Prague.

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Born

1366
Died

1436 (aged 70)

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Czechoslovakian

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