Josef Jireček, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Jireček

Czech member of Czech council, ethnographer, linguist and literature historian

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1825

Place of Birth: Vysoké Mýto, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-Nov-1888

Profession: writer, politician, historian, ethnographer, literary historian

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Josef Jirecek (9 October 1825, in Vysoké Mýto – 25 November 1888, in Prague) was a Czech scholar. He was born in Vysoké Mýto (then part of the Austrian Empire). He entered the Prague bureau of education in 1850, and became minister of the department in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871.
His efforts to secure equal educational privileges for the Slav nationalities in the Austrian dominions brought him into disfavour with the German element.
He became a member of the Bohemian Landtag in 1878, and of the Austrian Reichsrat in 1879.
His merits as a scholar were recognized in 1875 by his election as president of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences.
He died in Prague on 25 November 1888. In 1862, he and his brother Hermenegild Jirecek strove to defend the genuineness of the Königinhof Manuscript discovered by Václav Hanka.
He published in the Czech language an anthology of Czech literature (3 volumes, 1858–1861), a biographical dictionary of Czech writers (2 volumes, 1875–1876), a Czech hymnology, editions of Jan Blahoslav's Czech grammar and of some Czech classics, and of the works of his father-in-law Pavel Josef Safarik (1795–1861). His son was slavist Konstantin Josef Jirecek, his brother was historian Hermenegild Jirecek. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.
(1911).
"Jirecek, Josef".
Encyclopædia Britannica.
15 (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press.
p.
417.



Alternative names	Jan Vilimek
Description	Austrian-Czechoslovak portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1 January 1860	15 April 1938
Location of birth/death	Žamberk	Vienna
Work location	Prague, Vienna
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