Josef Václav Frič

Josef Václav Frič (5 September 1829 – 14 October 1890[1]) was a Czech poet, journalist and radical democrat revolutionary.

After the defeat of the rebellion he fled to Vienna, then to Zagreb and later he joined the Slovak revolutionary army of Ľudovít Štúr.

[1] He formed a new radical democratic organization Českomoravské bratrstvo (Bohemian-Moravian Brotherhood).

Barred from political activity, he joined the literary life and helped to create the almanac Máj, in which he announced a new generation of poets, with Jan Neruda as their leader.

He worked closely with the radical democrats in other countries (Mierosławski, Herzen, Bakunin, Garibaldi, Kossuth).