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Karel Jaromír Erben

Czech archivist, poet, ethnographer, librettist, publicist, lawyer, translator and writer (1811–1870).

Born November 7th, 1811 in Miletín. [ref]

Died November 27th, 1870 at 59 years old in Prague (tuberculosis). [ref]

Occupations
archivist, collector, collector of fairy tales, editor, ethnographer, folklorist, historian, journalist, jurist, musicologist, poet, prose writer, translator, writer

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Burr