He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg (Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, now Bratislava,[1] Slovakia).

From 1849, he was a professor of Slavic archeology at the University of Vienna, and several times he also acted as a counselor to the Austrian government for issues around the Slovaks.

His museum (since 1974) in Mošovce was installed in the former granary, which was the only masoned part of Kollár's otherwise wooden birth-house.

Předzpěv (Prelude) The author expressed his fears that the Slovaks will disappear from the face of Europe like other Slavic tribes before.

Kollár glorifies his love Mína, depicting her as an ideal of a Slavic maid, the daughter of goddess Sláva.

Labe, Rén, Vltava In these parts, the author takes us to places where Slavic tribes lived before.