Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Jan Frantisek Beckovsky

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Jan Beckovsky

Role
  
Historian

Jan Frantisek Beckovsky
Died
  
December 26, 1722, Prague, Czech Republic

Jan Frantisek Beckovsky (18 August 1658 – 26 December 1722), was a Czech historian, writer, translator, and priest.

Contents

Life

Beckovsky was born and studied in Havlickuv Brod, Brno, Vienna and Prague. In 1685 he entered the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star religious order, in 1688 he was ordained as a priest. Beckovsky was in a friendly relationship with another Czech writer of that time, Bohuslav Balbin. From 1688 to his death in Prague, he worked as an administrator of the monastery in the New Town, Prague.

Works

  • Poselkyne starych pribehuv ceskych (1700–1723) - the chronicle in two parts, the first part contains events till 1526, in the second part Becovsky depicts with the strong patriotic accent events till the beginning of the 18th century. An important source of Czech patriotic education in the 18th century.
  • Zarmoucena a po svem milenci truchliva hrdicka aneb kajici krestanska duse... (1703) - catechetic treatise

    • References

    Jan Frantisek Beckovsky Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA