Josef Jireček
Czech member of Czech council, ethnographer, linguist and literature historian (1825-1888) · Writers · Died at 63
Josef Jireček was a Czech scholar. He was born in Vysoké Mýto . He entered the Prague Bureau of Education in 1850 and became department minister in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871.
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His efforts to secure equal educational privileges for the Slav nationalities in the Austrian dominions brought him into disfavour with the German element. He became a member of the Bohemian Landtag in 1878 and of the Austrian Reichsrat in 1879. His merits as a scholar were recognized in 1875 by his election as president of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences. He died in Prague on 25 November 1888.
