Šebestián Hněvkovský

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Šebestián Hněvkovský
Hněvkovský's grave in Prague

Šebestián Hněvkovský (born March 19, 1770 in Žebrák ; † June 7, 1847 in Prague ) was a Czech lawyer , national enlightener and poet .

He had studied law and from 1795 worked ten years as a city ​​councilor in Plánice bei Klatovy and then eleven years in Žebrák , and another ten years as mayor in Polička . He spent his old age in Prague.

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Most of his works were created during his life as a city councilor. Together with Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer, he is the initiator and prominent personality of the first New Czech poetry school. In contrast to his artist colleagues, who drew many ideas from foreign literature, he tried his hand at originality and turned more and more to the people. For this reason, his poems are stylistically simpler.

Works

  • Epic Děvín - his best work, published as a book in 1805 . The theme is the first women's war after the death of Libuše . Some of the women denied the submission by the Přemyslid and entrenched themselves under the leadership of Vlasta on the castle Devin .
  • Vnislav a Běla - Sentimental ballad
  • Básně drobné - poems that were previously published in Puchmajer's almanac .
  • "The Bohemian Maiden War" , comic epic in 12 songs (1805, reworked as a serious epic 1829)
  • "Fragments of Poetry" (1820)
  • "Little Poems" (1820)
  • "Jaromir" , tragedy (1836)
  • "Marriage proposals to Kolodej" , comedy (1839)
  • "New Poems" (1841)
  • "Doctor Faust" , poem (1844)
  • Posthumously published tragedy “Przemysl Ottokar II” .

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personal data
SURNAME Hněvkovský, Šebestián
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hnevkovsky, Sebastián; Hněvkovsky, Šebestian; Hnewkowsky, Sebastyán
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Žebrák
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1847
Place of death Prague