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Božena Němcová

Died in 1862

Božena Němcová was born in Vienna, on 4 February 1820 according to the official date, but her birth and her parents remain uncertain; she grew up at Ratibořice, with her mother's mother. Married at seventeen, in 1837, to Josef Němec, a customs official fifteen years her senior and a patriot, she followed him from posting to posting, under police surveillance. Settled in Prague in 1842, she wrote in Czech, published folk tales and collected others in Slovakia. Her eldest son died in 1853. Poor and ill, she died of cancer in Prague on 21 January 1862.

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