Education
Charles University in Prague.
Charles University in Prague.
He also wrote Písně národní v Čechách (Folk Songs of Bohemia) which contains 500 songs and Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla (Czechoslovakian Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes), a five-parted book that brings together most of the Czechoslovakian folklore. He was born on November 7, 1811 in Miletín near Jičín. He went to college in Hradec Králové.
Then, in 1831, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law.
He started working in the National Museum (Národní muzeum) with František Palacký in 1843. He became editor of a Prague"s newspaper in 1848.
Two years later, in 1850, he became archives" secretary of the National Museum. He died on November 21, 1870 of tuberculosis.
Russian Academy of Sciences.
