Jan Jakubec
Jan Jakubec (born May 11, 1862 in Libunetz , Bohemia , † July 4, 1936 in Prague ) was a Czech literary historian .
Life
Jan Jakubec studied classical and Czech philology at the University of Prague after 1884 and was a high school teacher after 1891. He continued his studies in Vienna, Berlin and Leipzig in 1898/1899 and was a student of the philologist Jan Gebauer (1838–1907) and the musicologist Otakar Hostinsky (1847–1910), since 1903 private lecturer and from 1919 to 1932 full professor of Czech History of literature at Charles University in Prague and chairman of the Czechoslovak Ethnographic Society.
Publications
His work is influenced by positivism . In addition to his two main works, he wrote several essays and articles on Czech literature and its creation and development. Published:
- History of Bohemian Literature (Dějiny literatury české), together with Arne Novak - from its origins to the first half of the 19th century, 1907 and 1913
- Czech literature of the nineteenth century (Česká literatura devatenáctého století) - two volumes, 1911 and 1929/1934
- Editions by Franciszek Celakowsky, Jan Kollar (1793–1851), Frantisek Palacky (1798–1876) and others
literature
- Jakubec Jan. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 67.
- Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1984, p. 18 f. with further references
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Jan Jakubec in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 1, page 755
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jakubec, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Libunetz , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1936 |
| Place of death | Prague |