Adolf Černý

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Adolf Černý (1892)

Adolf Černý (* 1864 in Prague ; † 1952 ibid) was a Czech poet and journalist, and professor of Slavic studies in Prague.

academic career

Adolf Černý was a Slavist with a research focus on Sorbian Studies . From 1901 to 1922 he was a lecturer in Sorabic Studies at the Charles University in Prague . The Jagiellonian University in Krakow awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1947.

Černý also wrote poems under the pseudonym Jan Rokyta.

Sorbs question 1918/1919

In 1907 Černý took part as protector in the establishment of the Czech-Wendish Association Adolf Černý , named after him in recognition of his efforts for Sorbian issues , which was renamed in 1932 as the Society of Friends of Lusatia . This association is committed to the cultural and scientific exchange between the Sorbian and Czech people. Particularly after the First World War, there were intensive contacts to support the Sorbs in their striving for cultural autonomy.

As a ministry official and an expert on Sorbs he was adviser to the Czechoslovak delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference for the Sorbs question . It was a declared aim of the delegation to campaign for the protection and rights of the Slavic Sorbs minority in Lusatia. The maximum demand was an autonomous Lusatia, as demanded by the Wendish National Committee in 1919 and the Wendish People's Party that emerged from it during the Weimar Republic. Far more realistic attempts were made to obtain a minority protection for the Sorbs comparable to the minority protection treaty between the Allied and Associated Main Powers and Poland . However, this could not be achieved, only a general protection of minorities anchored in the Versailles Peace Treaty , which was reflected in Article 113 of the Weimar Constitution . This also ended Černý's ministerial activity.

Works

Černý published mainly in Sorbian and Czech.

  • Wobydlenje Łužiskich Serbow , Bautzen 1889
  • Lužické obrázky , F. Šimáček Prague 1890
  • Svatba (kwas) u Lužickych Srbů , Hórnik 1893
  • with Michał Hórnik : Mythiske bytosće Łužiskich Serbow , Bautzen 1888–1892
  • Různé (wšelakore) listy o Lužici , 1894
  • Lily z Tvých zahrad , 1899
  • Stawizny basnistwa hornjołužiskich Serbow , 1910
  • Lužice a Lužičtí Srbové , J. Otto Prague 1911
  • Lužická otázka (prašenje) , Pilsen 1918
  • Slovanstvo za světové války. Study, úvahy a črty z doby válečného převratu , Pilsen 1919

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Siegmund Musiat: Sorbian, Wendish associations. 1716 - 1937. A manual (=  publications of the Sorbian Institute . No. 26 ). 1st edition. Domowina-Verlag , Bautzen 2001, ISBN 3-7420-1835-3 , p. 292-295 .
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich W. Remes: The Sorbs Question 1918/1919 . Investigation of a failed autonomy movement (=  writings of the Sorbian Institute . No. 3 ). 1st edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, ISBN 3-7420-1500-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Černý, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rokyta, Jan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech publicist, Slavist, Sorabist
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death Prague