mersiowsky - 8-16-2022 at 09:47 PM
Lětopis Abstract 2022 1: Valenta, Zdeněk: The Sorbian and Czech Correspondence in the Estate of Josip Milaković
Josip Milaković (1861–1921) was a Croatian poet, journalist, collector of folk songs and translator working in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He popularized
Czech and Sorbian poetry among the southern Slavs. He corresponded with important personalities of Czech and Sorbian cultural life. One of the most
important Czech personalities was the promoter of Slavic reciprocity, Adolf Černý (1864–1952), who met J. Milaković in person during his
visit to Sarajevo on March 14, 1899. A. Černý also excited Milaković's interest in the Sorbs and later mediated, albeit only through his
letters, contact with the most prominent figure of the Sorbian national movement, the linguist Arnošt Muka (1854–1932). All this correspondence is in
the literary estate of Josip Milaković in the Sarajevo Historical Archives.