The Wendish Research Exchange - Valenta, Zdeněk: The Sorbian and Czech Correspondence in the Estate of Josip Milaković

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.