The study deals with Josef Jungmannʼs relation to grammar. Part I shows that Jungmann switched from the term mluvník, the purist equivalent of the Latin word grammatica (‘grammarʼ), to the term mluvnice, which had been mainly promoted by Václav Hanka. Part II examines the inspirational sources of…

In the pre-March (Vormärz) period, i.e. in the first half of the 19th century, tragedy and the tragic experienced unprecedented interest not only on the part of playwrights and audiences, but also on the part of aestheticians and critics. This study focuses on several questions, namely: Where did…

The study deals, on the one hand, with Jungmann’s texts that laid the foundation for Czech-language culture in the long 19th century and, on the other hand, with Czech national institutions and their selected actors who developed this language culture within them. The focus is on the concept of the…

Josef Jungmann (1773–1847) is traditionally considered to be the founder of Czech literary criticism (in the sense of Literaturkritik), although he did not, with a few exceptions, write the actual reviews of fiction, which were crucial for the development of the discussion of literature in the…

The article deals with the topic of murder in the broadside ballads published in the Czech lands in the 19th century, with closer attention to two stories from the areas of Mikulov and Teplice. The authors have focused on a comparison of individual prints in terms of language and typographical…