- JOSEF DOBROVSKÝ
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP
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THE CZECHS FOR EUROPE - JOSEF DOBROVSKÝ |
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP |
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| Date of issue: | 25. 6. 2003 | |
| Face value: | 9 CZK | |
| Printing sheets: | 50 stamps | |
| Size of the stamp: | 23 x 30 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Oldřich Kulhánek | |
| Engraver: | Milo Ondráček | |
| Method of printing: | rotary recess print in dark blue combined with photogravure in ochre, green blue and rosy. | |
| Subject of the stamp: | This stamp is issued to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Josef Dobrovský (1753-1829), the famous Czech linguist, founder of Slavonic studies, and a historian. He was undoubtedly the greatest personality of the first stage of the Czech National Revival. The main features of his scholarly work were a sense of criticism and scholarly truth (he e.g. did not hesitate to publicly express his doubt about the authenticity of the so-called Manuscript of Zelená Hora, a fake taken with extreme seriousness by most contemporaneous Czech patriots). Dobrovský, who wrote his books in Latin and German, regarded language and literature as the basic expression of a nation's cultural and political development. He believed that the supreme period of the development of Czech literature was the period of the rule of the Habsburg emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612). He therefore used the Czech of this period as a basis for his codification of the literary standard of the Czech language. He dealt with the Czech language in | |
| Catalogue No.: | 0363 | |
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