Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) was a Czech folklorist, poet and archivist, born in Miletín on 7 November 1811. He gathered Czech folk songs in Písně národní v Čechách (1842–1845) and is best known for Kytice (1853), a collection of ballads based on folk legends. From 1851 until his death he worked as an archivist in Prague. Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources is selected from his anthology.
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Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) was a Czech folklorist, poet and archivist, born in Miletín on 7 November 1811. He gathered Czech folk songs in Písně národní v Čechách (1842–1845) and is best known for Kytice (1853), a collection of ballads based on folk legends. From 1851 until his death he worked as an archivist in Prague. Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources is selected from his anthology.
