Jan Slavomír Tomíček

Jan Slavomír Tomíček (15 or 16 July 1806 in Horní Branná – 28 April 1866 in Prague) was a Czech writer, journalist, historian and ethnologist.

[citation needed] He was a member of the fellowship of the magazine Čechoslav; he also contributed to Světozor published by Pavel Josef Šafařík, and in 1834 he became an editor of Pražské noviny (The Prague News).

A criticism of the Russian tsar, written by the liberal-minded Tomíček,[1] cost Čelakovský his position.

by Matice česká, 1846) in particular outraged the censorship and the Archbishop of Prague so much that it threatened the existence of its publishing house.

However, he never attained a university professorship, which, together with facing poverty, made him feel disillusioned.