Adolf Černý (19 August 1864 in

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– 27 December 1952 in

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) was a

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linguist, translator, poet and journalist, as well as professor of

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. His principal research focus was on the

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. Černý also wrote poems under the pseudonym Jan Rokyta. The

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awarded him an

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in 1947.

Works

* ''Wobydlenje Łužiskich Serbow'' (1889) * ''Lužické obrázky'' (1890) * ''Svatba(kwas) u Lužickych Srbů'' (1893) * ''Mythiske bytosće Łužiskich Serbow I.'' (1893) * ''Různé (wšelakore) listy o Lužici'' (1894) * ''Lilie z Tvých zahrad'' (1899) * ''Stawizny basnistwa hornjołužiskich Serbow'' (1910) * ''Lužice a Lužičtí Srbové'' (1912) * ''Lužická otázka (prašenje)'' (1918)

References

* Radoslava Hnízdová, ''A Bibliographic Synopsis of Published Works'', Prague, 1998.

External links

* Slavists 1864 births 1952 deaths Linguists from the Czech Republic Czech poets Czech male poets People from Hradec Králové Czech translators Academic staff of Charles University {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub