Frantisek Palacky, a Bohemian historian, born at Hodslawitz, Moravia, June 14, 1798. He was educated at Presburg and Vienna, and from 1827 to 1837 was editor of the Casopis ceskeho Museum, the journal of the national museum at Prague. In 1829 he was appointed national historiographer, and commenced his "History of Bohemia" (vols, i.-v., 1836-'67), during the progress of which he published a "Theory of the Beautiful," a "History of Esthetics," "Literary Journey to Italy in 1837," the Archiv iesky (5 vols., 1840-'66), " Oldest Memorials of the Bohemian Language," and other works. In 1848 he was president of the Slavic congress at Prague, and soon afterward was sent as representative to the Austrian parliament. Both in the Austrian house of lords, of which in 1861 he became a member for life, and in the provincial diet of Bohemia, he was for years the leader of the Czech national party. Having vainly opposed the reconstruction of Austria on a German-Hungarian basis to the detriment of the Czech nationality, he took part in 1867 in the Panslavic gathering at Moscow. The most important of his later works is a collection of Documenta illustrative of the life and doctrine of Huss (1869).