Karel Havlíček Borovský

Karel Havlíček was born in 1821 in Borová, into a merchant family. Expelled from the Prague seminary after a year, he was in 1843 a tutor in Moscow, from where he returned disillusioned with Russia. A journalist, he founded the Národní noviny in 1848. Acquitted in November 1851, he was arrested on the night of 16 December and interned without trial at Brixen, in the Tyrol, until April 1855; on the way to Prague, he learned that his wife had died of tuberculosis. The same illness carried him off on 29 July 1856, at thirty-four, and his funeral turned into a demonstration.

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• PoetryTyrolean ElegiesTyrolské elegieKarel Havlíček Borovský · 1860Literature