Václav Alois Svoboda, a Neo-Latin Poet of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NEULAT.5.150625" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NEULAT.5.150625</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.NEULAT.5.150625" target="_blank" >10.1484/J.NEULAT.5.150625</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Václav Alois Svoboda, a Neo-Latin Poet of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Original language description

The article focuses on the Neo-Latin poetic works of Václav Alois Svoboda (1791–1849), particularly those included in his gymnasium anthology Poëseos latinae Specimina from 1832, reflecting his teaching career at various Czech gymnasiums. Svoboda, a notable Czech National Revival poet fluent in Czech, German, and Latin, is remembered in Germany for being the author of the first complete poetic translation of all of Seneca’s tragedies into German and for his globally influential poem Sanct Wenceslaw und Podiwin. His works often intertwined classical themes with contemporary issues, influenced by German Neohumanism and the Sturm und Drang movement. Despite the low development of classical philology in the Czech lands, Svoboda’s educational materials and poetic talent significantly enriched Austrian gymnasium education and contributed to the preservation of Latin, demonstrating the adaptability of the domestic literary environment at the turn of the modern era and Romanticism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-00477S" target="_blank" >GA22-00477S: Early modern Bohemia litteraria. Genre differentiation of Neo-Latin literature in the Czech Lands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Neulateinisches Jahrbuch

ISSN

1438-213X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

26

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

99-116

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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