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 ANTONIN Puchmayer was born in Teyn, a town on the river Vltava, on the 17th January, 1769—and died at Prague, in 1820. He was the most efficient and zealous among those bohemians who endeavoured to re—create a taste for the language and literature of his country, and the collection of Poems of which he was the editor, was the first fruits of a renewed attention to the subject. He was a philologist too of considerable merit, and had a little before his death completed a Rusian Grammar, dedicated to the empress mother, which she acknowledged by the present of