Karel Havlícek Borovský - Cecelice, Czech Republic - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

The sandstone monument of the Czech writer and political journalist Karel Havlícek Borovský was made by Karel Fink and it was unveiled in 1910 in a small park at the church in village Cecelice (Central Bohemia). The monument was paid by both the local authorities and citizens as well.

The life-size statue of Karel Havlícek Borovský is placed on about 4 meters high plinth. He is depicted here wearing a typical suit of these times called "Slavonic Chamare", with scarf tied around his neck and half-covered a long coat. His right hand is raised up, which according to sculptor should represent a defiant gesture against then monarchical regime. On the plinth there is engraved one of Borovsky quotations and in front of the plinth there is a sandstone lion.

Biography

Karel Havlícek Borovský, pseudonym Havel Borovský (October 31, 1821 -July 29, 1856)

" Czech author and political journalist, a master prose stylist and epigrammatist who reacted against Romanticism and through his writings gave the Czech language a more modern character.

A student at Prague, Havlícek first became a tutor in Russia, but in the 1840s he became active as a Czech politician and journalist. He wrote numerous articles advocating constitutional reform and national rights, mainly in his own Národní noviny (“National News”), and in 1851 he was arrested, tried, and banished to Brixen until 1855. While in exile he wrote three brilliant satirical poems that could be published only posthumously: “"Tyrolské elegie"” (1861; “Tyrolese Elegies”), “"Král Lávra"” (1870; “King Lávra”), and “"Krest svatého Vladimíra"” (1876; “The Conversion of St. Vladimir”). Krest svatého Vladimíra (1876; The Conversion of St. Vladimir) is a collection of his satirical poems."

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