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Albert Wratislaw
Albert Henry Wratislaw (1821α –1892) was an English headmaster and Slavonic scholar of Czech descent.
Albert Henry Wratislaw was born on 5 November 1821 in Rugby to Charlotte Anne Wratislaw (née Keele; c. 1799–1863) and William Ferdinand Wratislaw (1788–1853), a solicitor and founder of Brethertons.
Wratislaw's paternal grandfather Marc Mari Wratislaw (1735–1796), emigrated to England under the name "Marc Wratislavia" from Olomouc sometime between 1770–1771. Marc was a master of modern languages at Rugby School, and claimed to have been an attaché to the Austrian Embassy at Paris.
Albert Henry entered Rugby School, aged seven, on 5 November 1829 (Register, i. 161), and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1840, but migrated to Christ's, where he was admitted 28 April 1842; he graduated B.A. as third classic and twenty-fifth senior optime in 1844. He was appointed fellow of Christ's College (1844–1852) and became a tutor, ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1846, and commenced M.A. in 1847.
As a result, in collaboration with Dr Charles Anthony Swainson of the college, he published Loci Communes: Common Places (1848). He left Christ's in 1852.
He was elected a member of the Cambridge Camden Society on 8 November 1841.
During the long vacation of 1849 he visited Bohemia, studied the Czech language in Prague, and in the same autumn published at London Lyra Czecho Slovanska, or Bohemian poems, ancient and modern, translated from the original Slavonic, with an introductory essay, which he dedicated to Count Valerian Krasinski, as "from a descendant of a kindred race".
In August 1850 Wratislaw was appointed headmaster of Felsted School, his being the last appointment made by the representatives of the founder, Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich. During the previous 24 years under Thomas Surridge, the school had greatly declined in numbers. Wratislaw commenced with 22 boys, and the revival of the school was inaugurated by him. Unfortunately he found the climate of Felsted too bleak for him, and in 1855 he migrated, with a number of his Felsted pupils, to Bury St Edmunds, to become headmaster of King Edward VI School there. At Bury also he greatly raised the numbers of the school, which controversy about the book Jashar of his predecessor, Dr John William Donaldson, is said to have helped to empty.
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Albert Wratislaw
Albert Henry Wratislaw (1821α –1892) was an English headmaster and Slavonic scholar of Czech descent.
Albert Henry Wratislaw was born on 5 November 1821 in Rugby to Charlotte Anne Wratislaw (née Keele; c. 1799–1863) and William Ferdinand Wratislaw (1788–1853), a solicitor and founder of Brethertons.
Wratislaw's paternal grandfather Marc Mari Wratislaw (1735–1796), emigrated to England under the name "Marc Wratislavia" from Olomouc sometime between 1770–1771. Marc was a master of modern languages at Rugby School, and claimed to have been an attaché to the Austrian Embassy at Paris.
Albert Henry entered Rugby School, aged seven, on 5 November 1829 (Register, i. 161), and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1840, but migrated to Christ's, where he was admitted 28 April 1842; he graduated B.A. as third classic and twenty-fifth senior optime in 1844. He was appointed fellow of Christ's College (1844–1852) and became a tutor, ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1846, and commenced M.A. in 1847.
As a result, in collaboration with Dr Charles Anthony Swainson of the college, he published Loci Communes: Common Places (1848). He left Christ's in 1852.
He was elected a member of the Cambridge Camden Society on 8 November 1841.
During the long vacation of 1849 he visited Bohemia, studied the Czech language in Prague, and in the same autumn published at London Lyra Czecho Slovanska, or Bohemian poems, ancient and modern, translated from the original Slavonic, with an introductory essay, which he dedicated to Count Valerian Krasinski, as "from a descendant of a kindred race".
In August 1850 Wratislaw was appointed headmaster of Felsted School, his being the last appointment made by the representatives of the founder, Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich. During the previous 24 years under Thomas Surridge, the school had greatly declined in numbers. Wratislaw commenced with 22 boys, and the revival of the school was inaugurated by him. Unfortunately he found the climate of Felsted too bleak for him, and in 1855 he migrated, with a number of his Felsted pupils, to Bury St Edmunds, to become headmaster of King Edward VI School there. At Bury also he greatly raised the numbers of the school, which controversy about the book Jashar of his predecessor, Dr John William Donaldson, is said to have helped to empty.
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