Josef Jungmann

Czech author

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In Czech literature: The 18th and 19th centuries
Josef Jungmann set out to extend and modernize the Czech vocabulary through his translations (including John Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1811) and his monumental Czech-German dictionary (1835–39). The revival was also furthered by the Moravian historian František Palacký and the Slovak archaeologist Pavel Josef Šafařík. The…
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