Jan Karel Killar

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Jan Karel Killar (also: Jan Karel Kyllar ; * 1745 in Schlaney , County Glatz ; † April 28, 1800 in Náchod ) was a Bohemian brewer , author and patriot .

Life

Jan Karel Killar was baptized on September 2, 1745 in the St. Laurentius Church in Náchod, to which his birthplace Schlaney was parish at that time. His father came from Bílovec (now Běloves ) in the Nachod domain and was a servant of the Schlaneyer estate , which had belonged to the town of Náchod since 1601. The family returned to Náchod in Bohemia, probably because of the Seven Years' War . Jan Karel Killar learned the brewing trade there and then spent some time in Prague's old town , where he is proven to be a member of the brewers' guild in 1768. In Prague he maintained contact with patriotic circles and the Prague theater. Presumably under the influence of the religious and popular baroque drama, he wrote the hagiographic drama “Komedie o sv. Jiří mučedlníku “( Comedy of St. George the Martyr ). He later returned to Náchod, where he married in 1777. In 1782 the city of Náchod appointed him brewer for the brewery it owned in his birthplace, Schlaney, which now belonged to Prussia . Nevertheless, Killar maintained contact with Prague patriotic circles and with the writer Kramerius , for whom he distributed the magazines and books in the Náchod region, which were published by his publishing house, the Bohemian Expedition . In this publishing house, which developed into the center of the Czech national revival , Killar published anonymously the book "Rybrcol na Krkonoských horách nebo Zajletý a vysvobozený princ" in 1794. It attained great popular importance, was published several times and translated into German in 1797 under the title "Rübezahl im Riesengebirge". In 1795 Killar was one of the founders of the Post or Literary Brotherhood ( Literátské bratrstvo ). In 1795, Killar compiled a handwritten collection of funeral chants that was probably bound in 1849. In 1998 it was acquired by the Náchod District Museum.

Works

  • Comedy o sv. Jiří mučedlníku
  • Rybrcol na Krkonoských horách nebe Zajletý a vysvobozený princ
  • Kancionál funerální při chrámu Páně svatého Vavřince v městě Náchodě (Handwritten collection of funeral chants )

literature

  • Ludmila Sochorová: Východočeský dramatik Jan Karel Killar, “poctivýho řemesla sladovnickýho” . In: Výchočeská duchovná a slovesná kultura v 18. století. Rychnov nad Kněžnou 1999, ISBN 80-85834-75-8 , pp. 295-300 and 488-489
  • Ladislav Hladký: Literátské bratstvo v Náchodĕ . In: Výchočeská duchovná a slovesná kultura v 18. století. Rychnov nad Kněžnou 1999, ISBN 80-85834-75-8 , pp. 425–432 and 498–499
  • Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod . Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , p. 130

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the place of birth in Polsko is incorrect for the time.
personal data
SURNAME Killar, Jan Karel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kyllar, Jan Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian brewer as well as author and patriot
DATE OF BIRTH baptized September 2, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlaney , County Glatz
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1800
Place of death Náchod , Bohemia