Word Art, or a Collection of Examples with a Short Treatise on Style

By order of the court commission of 1816, grammar school students in Czech-speaking or linguistically diverse areas were to be provided with instruction in their mother tongue. Jungmann was therefore invited to compile a collection of Czech literary texts, which he supplemented with an explanation of style. In the second edition, he publicly formulated his national and linguistic programme: “We will remain a Czech nation as long as we maintain the accuracy and purity of the Czech language.”

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Subject:	Prague of the National Revival
Author:	Jungmann, Josef
Title:	Word Art, or a Collection of Examples with a Short Treatise on Style
Date:	1820
Place of publication:	Praha
Publisher:	Knížecí arcibiskupská knihtiskárna
Origin:	acquired in 1955
Licence:	Free license

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de Chateaubriand, Francois Auguste René : Atala, or The Loves of Two Indian Savages in the Desert, translated by Josef Jungmann (1805)

Jungmann, Josef: Verbal Art, or A Doctrine of Eloquence in Prose, Poetry and Oratory, with a Collection of Examples in Verse and Free Form (1845) (1845)

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Jungmann, Josef: Word Art, or a Collection of Examples with a Short Treatise on Style (1820)