Hermenegild Jireček, Ritter von Samokov (; 13 April 1827 – 29 December 1909),

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, who was born at

Vysoké Mýto Vysoké Mýto (; , also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. The historic town ...

(then part of the

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), was an official in the

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bureau of education. Among his important works on Slavonic law were ''Codex juris bohemici'' (11 parts, 1867–1892), and a ''Collection of Slav Folk-Law'' (Czech, 1880), ''Slav Law in Bohemia and Moravia down to the 19th Century'' (Czech, 3 vols. 1863–1873). His brother

Josef Jireček 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 minis ...

was also a noted scholar.

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* * Jurists from Austria-Hungary Habsburg Bohemian nobility People from Vysoké Mýto 1827 births 1909 deaths {{europe-law-bio-stub