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805: 820: 134:. During the previous 24 years under Thomas Surridge, the school had greatly declined in numbers. Wratislaw commenced with 22 boys, and the revival of the school was inaugurated by him. Unfortunately he found the climate of Felsted too bleak for him, and in 1855 he migrated, with a number of his Felsted pupils, to 252:
being a most damaging investigation of the myth contrived by the Jesuits in 1729. Among the small group of scholars in England taking an interest in Slavonic literature, Wratislaw's reputation was now established, and in April 1877 he was called upon to deliver four lectures upon his subject at the
317:, who said the quality of the translations cannot be reproached with auspices given by Prof. Morfill, but the work did not rise above a "charming" anthology of tales due to its shortage of critical material. Wratislaw included creation myth stories from 215:, there were rising suspicions regarding its authenticity. But he dismissed the doubt, because sceptics had not laid out concrete arguments from rational grounds. Later developments branded the manuscript as a forgery, so that Professor 241:(1576–1635), from whom the Wratislaw family claim descent. This was literally translated from the Bohemian work first published from the original manuscript by Pelzel in 1777, and prefaced by a brief sketch of Bohemian history. 349:
One of his sons, Albert Charles Wratislaw (1863-1938) joined the British consular service as a Student Interpreter in the Levant in 1883, and retired in 1919 after serving in various posts in the Middle East.
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It is noted that he took command of the Czech language at extraordinary speed, but that he may have previously been to the country, accompanying him five years earlier.
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After his early publication of translated poetry in 1849, he published several texts and school books, but found it difficult to keep up his Bohemian studies.
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William Ferdinand Wratislaw devoted considerable effort to prove their lineage from this family of counts, but with little success.
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Lyra Czecho Slovanska, or Bohemian poems, ancient and modern, translated from the original Slavonic, with an introductory essay,
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the excellence of Wratislav's 1849 and 1852 translations, had to make a regretful remark on the inclusion of forged poetry.
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In 1852 were issued a Prague edition with numerous typographical errors and a corrected edition of Cambridge and London.
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During the twenty years that followed his appointment at Felsted scholastic work took up nearly all Wratislaw's time.
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Life, Legend, and Canonization of St. John Nepomucen, Patron Saint and Protector of the Order of the Jesuits,
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They were married at High Wycombe. She was the second daughter of the Rev. Joseph Charles Helm (d. 1844).
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A Religious Encyclopaedia: Or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology
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He was one of the dozen who attended the historic December 1869 meeting of headmasters gathered by
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there. At Bury also he greatly raised the numbers of the school, which controversy about the book
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John Huss, the Commencement of Resistance to Papal Authority on the part of the Inferior Clergy
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in 1844. He was appointed fellow of Christ's College (1844–1852) and became a tutor,
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in 1852, a translation from the original Slavonic into English verse, mostly in
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Diary of an Embassy from King George of Bohemia to King Louis XI of France.
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in 1846, and commenced M.A. in 1847. As a result, in collaboration with Dr
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Sto prostonárodních pohádek a pověstí slovanských v nářečích původních
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Two years later, as the result of much labour, Wratislaw produced the
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An Essay on the Importance of the Study of the Slavonic Languages
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During the long vacation of 1849 he visited Bohemia, studied the
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The Queen's Court Manuscript, with Other Ancient Bohemian Poems
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The Queen's Court Manuscript, with other ancient Bohemian Poems
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It was followed in 1871 by a version from the Slavonic of the
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The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century.
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in Prague, and in the same autumn published at London
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Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society
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In August 1850 Wratislaw was appointed headmaster of
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The Story of King Edward VI School, Bury St. Edmunds
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Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz
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(1891), 275:, London, 1882, 8vo, in the 132:Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich 114:which he dedicated to Count 94:Loci Communes: Common Places 7: 232:Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic 72:, in 1840, but migrated to 10: 897: 767:, Cambridge: John Deighton 618:Bohemian Ballad-Literature 454:The Ecclesiastical Gazette 211:) allegedly discovered by 187: 138:, to become headmaster of 70:Trinity College, Cambridge 678:The Archaeological Review 595:Auty & Tyrrell (1969) 566:Auty & Tyrrell (1969) 521:"Wratislaw, Albert Henry" 424:Auty & Tyrrell (1969) 344: 856:19th-century translators 658:, Frowde, pp. 10–11 650:Morfill, William Richard 624:Queen's Court Manuscript 436:Wratislaw (W. F.) 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Index

Albert Henry Wratislaw

clergyman
Rugby
Wratislaw von Mitrovitz
Rugby School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Christ's
senior optime
ordained
Church of England
Charles Anthony Swainson
Cambridge Camden Society
Czech language
Valerian Krasinski
Felsted School
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
Bury St Edmunds
King Edward VI School
John William Donaldson
Edward Thring
Uppingham School
Headmasters' Conference
vicar
rector
living
Manorbier
ballad meter
Queen's Court Manuscript
Václav Hanka

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