Josef Jireček
Josef Jireček • Illustration — Josef Jireček (1888) Josef Jireček (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 department minister in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871.
Josef Jireček
Jan Vilímek · Zlatá Praha, year 1888-9, issue 3, digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences · Public domain
- Died
- 1888 · New Town.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary · Austrian Empire
- Occupation
- historian · writer · ethnographer · politician · linguist · philosopher
- Education
- Charles University
- Honours
- Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy) · honorary citizen of Chrudim
- Languages
- Czech
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Josef Jireček • Illustration — Josef Jireček (1888) Josef Jireček (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 department minister in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871.
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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 Jireček strove to defend the genuineness of the Königinhof Manuscript discovered by Václav Hanka. His son was the Slavic specialist Konstantin Josef Jireček, and his brother was the historian Hermenegild Jireček.
Josef Jireček is recorded as having received Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy) and honorary citizen of Chrudim.
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1825
Josef Jireček born at Vysoké Mýto.
1888
Josef Jireček died at Prague.
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Vysoké Mýto.
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Recorded positions include Prague City Assembly member, Member of Abgeordnetenhaus and Member of the Bohemian Diet. He belonged to Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Serbian Learned Society and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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