“ He received his first education in the German school at Bischofteinitz, made his first acquaintance with Bohemian at the Deutschbrod gymnasium, studied for some time under the Jesuits at Klattau, and then proceeded to the university of Prague. In 1772 he was admitted among the Jesuits at Brünn; but on the dissolution of the order in 1773 he returned to Prague to study theology. After holding for some time the office of tutor in the family of Count Nostitz, he obtained an appointment first as vice-rector, and then as rector, in the general seminary at Hradisch ”

“ Lehrgebäude der böhm. Sprache (1809) ; Institutiones linguae slavicae dialecti veteris (1822) ; Entwurf zu einem allgemeinen Etymologikon der slaw. Sprachen (1813) ; Slowanka zur Kenntniss der slaw. Literatur (1814) ”