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Karel Jaromír Erben

Died in 1870

Karel Jaromír Erben was born on 7 November 1811 in Miletín, the son of a shoemaker and gardener; his twin brother died a few weeks after birth. After the secondary school in Hradec Králové, he studied philosophy and law in Prague, where he gave music lessons, then became, with the support of František Palacký, the city's archivist. A collector of Czech and Slavic folk songs and tales, a historian and translator, he died in Prague on 21 November 1870.

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