had gone in 1828 to study in the local libraries. While his fame rests chiefly on his labours in Slavonic philology his botanical studies are not without value in the history of the science. Between 1948 and 1968 Czech poet Vladimír Holan lived in the so-called "Dobrovský House" on Kampa, often saying that the Blue Abbé (a nickname by which Dobrovský was known) would sometimes visit him. Most important works Fragmentum Pragense evangelii S. Marci, vulgo autographi (1778) a periodical for Bohemian and Moravian literature (1780–1787) Scriptores rerum Bohemicarum (2 vols., 1783) Geschichte der böhm. Sprache und alten Literatur (1792) Die Bildsamkeit der slaw. Sprache (1799) a Deutsch-böhm. Wörterbuch compiled in collaboration with Leschk, Puchmayer and Hanka (1802–1821) Entwurf eines Pflanzensystems nach Zahlen und Verhältnissen (1802) Glagolitica (1807) Lehrgebäude der böhmischen Sprache (1809) Institutiones linguae slavicae dialecti veteris (1822) Entwurf zu einem allgemeinen Etymologikon der slaw. Sprachen (1813) Slowanka zur Kenntnis der slaw. Literatur (1814) a critical edition of Jordanes, De rebus Geticis, for Pertz's Monumenta Germaniae Historica See Palacký, J. Dobrowskys Leben und gelehrtes Wirken (1833). See also List of Jesuit scientists Josef Dobrovský Monument Notes References External link 1753 births 1829 deaths 18th-century Bohemian people 19th-century Czech people 18th-century Austrian people 19th-century Austrian people Czech Roman Catholics Czech academics Czech writers in German Czech philologists Linguists from the Czech Republic Czech language activists Slavists Czech lexicographers Historians of the Czech lands Charles University alumni Members of the Russian Academy People from the Kingdom of Hungary People from the Kingdom of Bohemia People from Balassagyarmat Writers from Brno Czech Roman Catholic writers