Karel Havlicek Borovsky - Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic, EU - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

Karel Havlícek Borovský - Borová, today Havlíckova Borová; October 31, 1821 - Prague, July 29, 1856) was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher. He lived and studied at the Gymnasium in Nemecký Brod (today Havlíckuv Brod), and his house on the main square is today the Havlícek Museum. In 1838 he moved to Prague to study philosophy at Charles University and, influenced by the revolutionary atmosphere before the 1848, decided on the objective of becoming a patriotic writer. He devoted himself to studying Czech and literature. After graduating he began studying theology because he thought the best way to serve the nation would be as a priest. He was expelled, however, after one year for "showing too little indication for spiritual ministry".

After failing to find a teacher's job in Bohemia, he left for Moscow becoming a tutor in a Russian teacher's family: he was recommended by Pavel Josef Šafarík. He became a Russophile and a Pan-Slav, but after recognizing the true reality of the Russian society he took the pessimistic view that "Pan-Slavism is a great, attractive but feckless idea". His memories on the Russian stay were published first in magazines and then as a book Obrazy z Rus (Pictures from Russia).

After he returned to Bohemia in 1844, he used his writing skill to criticize the public habit of embracing everything written in the recently re-born Czech language. His attack was aimed specifically at a novel by Josef Kajetán Tyl. František Palacký helped Havlícek get a job as Editor of the Pražské noviny newspaper in 1846.

In April 1848 he changed the name of the newspaper to Národní noviny (National News). This paper became one of the first newspapers of the Revolutionary-era Czech liberals. He was concerned with the preparations of the Congress of the Slavs in Prague. In July he was elected a member of Austrian Empire Constituent Assembly in Vienna and later in Kromeríž. He finally gave up the seat to focus on his journalism. Národní noviny became popular especially for his sharp-tongued epigrams and his wit.

Havlícek translated and introduced some satirical and critical authors into the Czech language culture including Nikolai Gogol (1842) and Voltaire (1851).[1]

Against the law he was arrested by the police on the night of December 16, 1851, and forced into exile in Brixen, Austria (present-day Italy). He was depressed from the exile, but continued writing. While in exile, he wrote some of his best work: Tyrolské elegie (Tirol Laments), Krest svatého Vladimíra (Baptism of St.Vladimir) and Král Lávra (King Lavra). When he returned from Brixen in 1855, he learned that his wife had died a few days earlier. Most of his former friends, afraid of the Bach system, stood aloof from him. Only a few publicly declared support for him. He died from tuberculosis, aged 35. Božena Nemcová put a crown of thorns on his head in the coffin. His funeral was attended by a procession of about 5,000 Czechs.

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Od roku 1832 studoval v Havlíckove Brode (dnes je zde muzeum se stálou expozicí venovanou jeho živote)(tehdy Nemecký Brod) na gymnáziu. Havlícek toužil po tom, aby mohl pusobit na výchovu ceského lidu, vstoupil proto do knežského semináre. Nelíbily se mu však pomery, které zde panovaly. Na podzim 1841 proto seminár opustil a stal se až do konce života nekompromisním kritikem církve. Od roku 1838 studoval filosofii v Praze.
Pametní deska na rodném dome v Borové

Jako první vystoupil proti prehnanému rusofilství 1. generace národních buditelu a rozhodl se prezkoumat stav a vhodnost slovanské vzájemnosti, proto se roku 1843 stal vychovatelem v Moskve. Již roku 1844 se vrátil s presvedcením, že slovanská vzájemnost je zcela nemožná.

Roku 1846 se stal redaktorem Pražských novin a jejich prílohy Ceská vcela. Roku 1848 odešel z Pražských novin, aby založil vlastní – Národní noviny, které dosáhly velké popularity.

Podílel se na organizaci Všeslovanského sjezdu, navštívil Polsko a Chorvatsko, aby presvedcil tamní spisovatele k úcasti na sjezdu.

Roku 1848 byl zvolen poslancem do ríšského snemu a národního výboru. V národním výboru byl pomerne aktivní, ve Vídni však pusobil více jako novinár než jako poslanec. V tomto období (do vydání oktrojované ústavy v breznu 1849) byl príznivcem vlády a v Cechách byl obvinován, že se vláde zaprodal.

Od brezna 1849 vystupoval velmi radikálne proti vláde, a tak v cervnu byly Národní noviny zakázány. Ministerstvo mu za príslib mírnosti povolilo další vydávání novin. V lednu 1850 byly tyto noviny spolu s prílohou Šotek (zde uverejnoval své epigramy) zakázány. Poté založil ješte casopis Slovan, ale i ten byl roku 1851 nucen prestat vydávat.

V listopadu 1851 vyhrál soud, pred kterým se zodpovídal za své clánky, presto byl 16. prosince 1851 prevezen do Brixenu, kde zustal ve vyhnanství (konfinaci) až do roku 1855.

Propušten byl krátce pred svou smrtí. Na pohrbu mu Božena Nemcová údajne dala na rakev trnovou korunu jako symbol mucednictví.

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