| LC control no. | no 91023793 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jonáš, Karel, 1840-1896 |
| Variant(s) | Jonas, Charles, 1840-1896 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Racine (Wis.) |
| Birth date | 1840-10-30 |
| Death date | 1896-01-15 |
| Place of birth | Malešov (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | Krefeld (Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Politicians Consuls Linguists |
| Found in | His A complete pronouncing dictionary of the English and Bohemian languages, 1949: t.p. (Charles Jonas; Karel Jonáš) Biog. index: v. 5 (Jonas, Charles, 1840-1896; Czech-Am. journalist and diplomat) LCCN 61-30220: His Slovník česko-anglický s úplnou anglickou výslovností, 1951 (hdg.: Jonáš, Karel, 1840-1896) Wikipedie, otevřená encyklopedie, March 22, 2019: Karel Jonáš page (Karel Jonáš, Charles Jonas; born 30 October 1840 in Malešov; died 15 January 1896 in Krefeld; Czech-American politician, journalist, and linguist; immigrated to England in 1860, where he worked as a newspaper correspondent; immigrated to the United States, where he worked at the first Czech-language newspaper, Slavie (founded in 1860); lived in Racine, Wisconsin; composed the first modern Czech-American and English-Czech dictionary; wrote a textbook of Czech for English speakers; served as a member of the Wisconsin House of Representatives and Wisconsin Senate; also was lieutenant governer of Wisconsin; served as American consul in Prague, 1886-1889; Russia, and Germany) <https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Jon%C3%A1%C5%A1> |
| Associated language | cze eng |
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