Jan František Beckovský (18 August 1658 – 26 December 1725), was a

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historian, writer, translator, and priest.

Life

Beckovsky was born and studied in

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, Brno,

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and Prague. In 1685 he entered the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star religious order, in 1688 he was ordained as a

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. Beckovský was in a friendly relationship with another Czech writer of that time, Bohuslav Balbín. From 1688 to his death in

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, he worked as an administrator of the monastery in the

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Works

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' (1700–1723) - the chronicle in two parts, the first part contains events till 1526, in the second part Beckovský depicts with the strong patriotic accent events till the beginning of the 18th century. An important source of Czech patriotic education in the 18th century. *''Zarmoucená a po svém milenci truchlivá hrdička aneb kající křesťanská duše...'' (1703) - catechetic treatise

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Life

Works

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