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Zikmund Winter

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contribution to Czech literature

  • Jan Hus
    In Czech literature: The 18th and 19th centuries

    …historical novelists Alois Jirásek and Zikmund Winter. Both men presented romanticized versions of Czech history, but their historical details were based on scholarly research. Jirásek’s novels presented an entire history of the Czechs up to his own time, concentrating in particular on the Hussite period and the national revival of…

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