at Vienna, and Palacký was even offered a portfolio in the Pillersdorf cabinet. The collapse of the federal idea and the definite triumph of the party of reaction in 1852 led to his retirement from politics. After the liberal concessions of 1860 and 1861, however, he became a life member of the Austrian senate. His views met with small support from the assembly, and with the exception of a short period after the decree of September 1871, by which the emperor raised hopes for Bohemian self-government, he ceased to appear in the senate from 1861 onwards. In the Bohemian Diet (zemský sněm) he became the acknowledged leader of the nationalist-federal party (staročeši). He sought the establishment of a Czech kingdom that should include Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, and in his zeal for Czech autonomy he even entered into an alliance with the Conservative nobility and with the extreme Catholics. He attended the Panslavist congress in Moscow in 1867. He died in Prague on May 26, 1876. Legacy Palacký is considered as one of the three Fathers of the nation – the first being the King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, the second is František Palacký and the third is President of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Various individuals like to emphasize one over the other. As to historians, none have surpassed his history of Bohemia except when they have focused on a narrower time period. Even these have been directly or indirectly influenced by his work. Works Poetry Na horu Radhošť – poem Má modlitba dne 26. července 1818 – hymnus Ideál říše – ode from year 1920 Other works Würdigung der alten böhmischen Geschichtschreiber (Prague, 1830), dealing with authors of many of whose works were then inaccessible to Czech students Dějiny národu českého v Čechách a v Moravě I–V (History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia), 1836–1867 Archiv český (6 vols., Prague, 1840–1872) Urkundliche Beiträge zur Geschichte des Hussitenkriegs (2 vols., Prague, 1872–1874) Documenta magistri Johannis Hus vitam, doctrinam, causant ... illustrantia (Prague, 1869) with Šafařík he wrote Anfänge der böhmischen Dichtkunst (Pressburg, 1818) and Die ältesten Denkmäler der böhmischen Sprache (Prague, 1840) Three volumes of his Czech articles and essays were published as Radhost (3 vols., Prague, 1871–1873) See also František Ladislav Rieger Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Palacký University, Olomouc Notes References Further reading Baar, Monika. Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century