A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Havlicek, Karel

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Havlicek, Karel, Czek writer. B. Oct. 31, 1821. Ed. Archiepiscopal Seminary, Prague. He was a private tutor at Moscow 1842–44, but he returned to Prague, and founded the National Gazette. It was suppressed after the Revolution, and Havlicek was interned in the Tirol, where he wrote his biting Tiroler Elegien. He continued the work after his return to Bohemia in 1855. His satires and epigrams, which often assail religion (as in "The Baptism of St. Vladimir"), were collected and published in 1877. D. July 29, 1856.