Palack%C3%BD, Frantiek#
b. Hodslavice, Czech Republic (then Hotzendorf), June 14, 1798, d. Prague (Czech Republic), May 26, 1876, historian and politician. National historiographer; representative of Austro-slavism, 1848/49 political leader of the Czech nation in the Kremsier, Reichstag of. Member of the 1st Austrian Parliament, from 1861 leader of the "Old Czechs" in the Upper Chamber of the Reichsrat and Bohemian Landtag. P. refused to represent Bohemia in the Frankfurt National Assembly (see) Frankfurter Nationalversammlung and drew up plans for a federalist reorganisation of the Austrian empire.
Works#
Geschichte von Boehmen, 5 vols., 1836-1867 (reprint 10 vols., 31967); Oesterreichs Staatsidee, 1866.Literature#
G. Morava, F. P., 1990; OeBL.