Jan František Beckovský

Jan František Beckovský

Jan František Beckovský (18 August 1658 – 26 December 1722), was a Czech historian, writer, translator, and priest.

Life

Beckovsky was born and studied in Havlíčkův Brod, Brno, Vienna and Prague. In 1685 he entered the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star religious order, in 1688 he was ordained as a priest. Beckovský was in a friendly relationship with another Czech writer of that time, Bohuslav Balbín.[1] From 1688 to his death in Prague, he worked as an administrator of the monastery in the New Town, Prague.[1]

Works

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 ed. Věra Menclová, Václav Vaněk (2005). Slovník českých spisovatelů (in Czech). Prague: Libri. p. 63. ISBN 80-7277-179-5.

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