Kollár, Jan (1793–1852)

Slovak poet who wrote in Czech. He was the chief exponent of pan-Slavism, which he saw as a cultural rather than a political philosophy. He wrote Slávy dcera/The Daughter of Slava 1824, a sonnet cycle which was expanded in its final edition (1852) to include over 600 sonnets both in praise of the Slavonic peoples and of his German beloved.