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The Bohemian Reformation (also known as the Czech Reformation [1] or Hussite Reformation ), preceding the Reformation of the 16th century, was a Christian movement in the late medieval and early modern Kingdom and Crown of Bohemia (mostly what is now present-day Czech Republic, Silesia, and Lusatia) striving for a reform of the Catholic Church.
Abstract. This thesis discusses the phenomenon of language revival through an examination of the Czech National Awakening, a literary, philological and eventually politico-national movement that took place in the Czech Lands in the nineteenth century and the only completely successful case of language revival in Europe.
- Shirley Ascroft
- Ascroft, Shirley
- 2002
- Thesis (Masters)
The period of the mature literary language from the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century. The orthography in written texts is not still unified, digraphs are used predominantly in various forms. After the invention of book-printing, the so-called Brethren orthography stabilized in printed documents.
(1780) and that of Francis Joseph (1848) the Czech-speaking inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia became a nation both in their own eyes and in the eyes of the outside world. The establishment of a modern, normalised literary form of their language was the clearest symptom of this new development. Language influenced
The Czech National Revival was a cultural movement which took place in the Czech lands during the 18th and 19th centuries. The purpose of this movement was to revive the Czech language, culture and national identity. The most prominent figures of the revival movement were Josef Dobrovský and Josef Jungmann .
Czechoslovak history - Counter Reformation, Protestant Rebellion: The early stage of Rudolf II’s long reign as Holy Roman emperor (1576–1612) was simply an extension of Maximilian’s regime. But in 1583 Rudolf transferred his court from Vienna to Prague, and the Bohemian capital became once more an imperial residence and a lively political and cultural centre. A passionate patron of the ...
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Josef Jungmann published the five-volume Czech-German dictionary in the 30-ies. His devotion to the Czech language brought in many neologisms or loanwords from other Slavic languages; he reformed the Czech language to serve any complex usage, including rich poetry, scientific terminology, etc.
