František Bartoš (folklorist)

František Bartoš (16 March 1837 - 11 June 1906) was a Moravian ethnomusicologist, folklorist, folksong collector, and dialectologist.

The folksongs appear in ethnographic monographs and the work as a whole is viewed as one of the most important folk song collections ever published.

In 1864 he became a schoolteacher in Strážnice, later taking teaching positions in Olomouc, Těšín, and the first Czech Gymnasium in Brno (1869).

His employment there brought him into a working relationship with Leoš Janáček, who helped him with his third volume of folk songs.

Bartoš in turn furthered Janáček's interest and understanding of Czech and Moravian folksongs which influenced his musical compositions.