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Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár (1793 - 1852) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaelogist, scientist and politician.
Life
He studied at the Evangelical Lutheren Lyceum of Bratislava. He acted as a priest in Budapest, since 1849 as a professor of the University of Vienna, and several times as a counsellor to the Austrian government for issues around the Slovaks. He entered the Slovak national movement in its first phase.
Views
He worked out a conception of Slav reciprocity. He admited 4 standard languages - Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbcroatian.
Works
Besides writing poetry he wrote also technical literature.
- Slávy dcera (The daughter of the Slav)
- O literární vzájemnosti mezi kmeny a nářečími slavskĭmi (On the literary reciprocity between Slav tribes and vernaculars)
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