The First Petrarch Biography in the Bohemian Countries

Although several years have passed since the 700th birthday of Francesco Petrarca in 2004, I would like to commemorate this anniversary and at the same time refer to the relatively rare book 'Franz Petrarka. Biography 'and whose author Joseph Georg MEINERT point out. He has probably remained unknown to many researchers, and as usual, only a few Czech encyclopaedias have dedicated a cue to him in the past. For example, those of Rieger, Otto, the Masaryk encyclopaedia (only 5 lines), of the newer only published in Prague publisher Odeon 'Slovnik spisovatelu nemeckeho jazyka a spisovatelu luzicko-srbskych' [Encyclopedia of German-speaking writers and the Sorbian writer]. In addition to the last mentioned lexicon, a false date of birth is given everywhere, namely the year 1775,