Josef Linda

Josef Linda

Josef Linda (born June 1792 in Nové Mitrovice , † February 10, 1834 in Prague ) was a Czech writer.

Life

Linda attended high school in Pilsen , where she studied philosophy and later law in Prague. In 1818 he started working with the Prager Schönfeld Zeitung and since 1820 he has been editing the Vlastenecký zvěstovatel (Patriotic Herald). Two years later he took a position at the imperial library, which he gave up three years later and devoted himself fully to journalism.

Works

The largest part of his work belongs to the newspaper industry.

poetry

• Jiří z Poděbrad ( George of Poděbrady )
• Boží trest (God's punishment)
• Vědomí (Consciousness)

Plays

• Jaroslav Šternberk v boji proti Tatarům (Jaroslav Sternberg in the fight against the Tatars )

prose

• Záře nad pohanstvem nebo Václav a Boleslav (The glow above paganism or Wenceslaus and Boleslav)

Textbooks

• Obrazní přírodoznanská kniha s 25 kamotiskými přimalovanými vobrazeními živočichů

Counterfeit

Together with Václav Hanka, he is said to be the author of the forged manuscripts Königinhofer Handschrift and Grünberger Manschrift .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Linda, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 195 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Havel:  Linda Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 218.
• Katrin Berwanger: History myth and literature with Josef Linda: Strengthening the Wenzel legend instead of eternal German-Czech antagonism . In: Processes of Cultural Integration and Disintegration. Germans, Czechs and Bohemians in the 19th Century, ed. by Steffen Höhne and Andreas Ohme, Munich 2005, pp. 115–133.

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Josef Linda in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic