František Palacký
| František Palacký | |
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| MP of Bohemian provincial diet | |
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In office 1861–1876 |
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| MP of Imperial Diet | |
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In office 1848–1849 |
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June 14, 1798 Hodslavice, Habsburg Monarchy |
| Died | May 26, 1876 (aged 77) Prague, Austria-Hungary |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Political party | National Party |
| Children | Jan Křtitel Kašpar Palacký Marie Riegrová-Palacká |
| Profession | Politician Historian |
František Palacký (Czech pronunciation: [franˈciʃɛk paˈlatskiː]; June 14, 1798, Hodslavice – May 26, 1876, Prague) was a Czech historian and politician, the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation".
František Palacký was born in the northeastern Moravian village of Hodslavice, now part of the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. His ancestors had been members of the community of the Bohemian Brethren, and had clandestinely maintained their Protestant belief throughout the period of religious persecution, eventually giving their adherence to the Augsburg confession as approximate to their original faith. Palacký's father was a schoolmaster and a man of some learning. The son was sent in 1812 to the Evangelic Lutheran Lyceum at then-Hungarian city of Bratislava, where he came in contact with the philologist Pavel J. Šafařík and became a zealous student of Slavonic languages (he mastered 11 languages and became familiar with a few others).
After some years spent in private teaching, Palacký settled in 1823 at Prague. Here he found a warm friend in Josef Dobrovský, whose good relations with the Austrian authorities shielded him from the hostility shown by the government to students of Slav subjects. Dobrovský introduced him to Count Sternberg and his brother Francis, both of whom took an enthusiastic interest in Bohemian history. Count Francis was the principal founder of the Society of the Bohemian Museum, devoted to the collection of documents bearing on Bohemian history, with the object of reawakening national sentiment by the study of the national records.
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