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the level of the nation, he supported the involvement of young people and
students in national work, as well as for Slavic reciprocity. He helped to es-
tablish the library for the youth, the newspaper for the young people, which
he later maintained in Prague as Zvonček (Little Bell). He even provided
complete material support for the periodical. Lego made a great effort to
bring Slovene and Czech pupils closer together. Providing some financial
support, he encouraged Slovenes to study in Prague, which he called “Slav-
ic city”. At the same time he encouraged them to visit Czech lands on holi-
days. When he died in 1906, in obituary in Omladina (The Youth), nation-
al radicals remembered him as “the most attentive father of Slovene school
pupils”, since he also looked after Slovene pupils in Prague.3 After his return
to Prague in 1874, he kept in touch with Slovene youth by sending books to
them, money and spiritual encouragement. For this very reason Slovene
pupils and students referred to him as the “Slovene consul in Prague”.
While working in Ljubljana, Lego strove to raise the level of educa-
tion of Slovene teachers, encouraging as many Slovene teachers as possible
to work with the Czech teachers to instruct each other about Slovene and
Czech literature, language and customs of the two nations, thereby spread-
ing knowledge. He contributed a great deal to organization of Slovene
teachers, who in 1869 founded Učiteljsko društvo za Kranjsko (Teachers’ So-
ciety for Carniola). At the same time they began to publish their own pub-
lication Učiteljski tovariš (Teacher’s Comrade). He supported Slovene edu-
cation in various ways, e.g. by sending mineral collections from the Czech
lands to grammar school in Kranj, to folk schools in Kranj and Postojna,
Czech books to the girls’ high school in Ljubljana, and so forth.
One of the most significant were his contributions to Czech journals,
informing the Czechs of Slovene general conditions. Similarly, from Czech
newspapers he passed information on conditions in Czech lands and pub-
lished them in Bleiweis’ Novice (News), promoting again Slovene interest in
Slavdom and Slavic ideas.
In 1874 he returned to Prague but his heart remained with the Slo-
venes. He worked in some museum, he continued to report in the Czech
press on Slovenes, their literary, cultural and political events. He collected
biographies of Slovene cultural workers, writers and politicians for Ottův
Slovnik naučný. He founded Češko-slovensko društvo (Czech-Slovene Soci-
ety) to inform Czechs on Slovene conditions and cultural achievements. He
gave several talks on Slovenes to other societies such as the American La-
3 Dr. P., “Jan Lego,” Omladina (1907): 7.
300
the level of the nation, he supported the involvement of young people and
students in national work, as well as for Slavic reciprocity. He helped to es-
tablish the library for the youth, the newspaper for the young people, which
he later maintained in Prague as Zvonček (Little Bell). He even provided
complete material support for the periodical. Lego made a great effort to
bring Slovene and Czech pupils closer together. Providing some financial
support, he encouraged Slovenes to study in Prague, which he called “Slav-
ic city”. At the same time he encouraged them to visit Czech lands on holi-
days. When he died in 1906, in obituary in Omladina (The Youth), nation-
al radicals remembered him as “the most attentive father of Slovene school
pupils”, since he also looked after Slovene pupils in Prague.3 After his return
to Prague in 1874, he kept in touch with Slovene youth by sending books to
them, money and spiritual encouragement. For this very reason Slovene
pupils and students referred to him as the “Slovene consul in Prague”.
While working in Ljubljana, Lego strove to raise the level of educa-
tion of Slovene teachers, encouraging as many Slovene teachers as possible
to work with the Czech teachers to instruct each other about Slovene and
Czech literature, language and customs of the two nations, thereby spread-
ing knowledge. He contributed a great deal to organization of Slovene
teachers, who in 1869 founded Učiteljsko društvo za Kranjsko (Teachers’ So-
ciety for Carniola). At the same time they began to publish their own pub-
lication Učiteljski tovariš (Teacher’s Comrade). He supported Slovene edu-
cation in various ways, e.g. by sending mineral collections from the Czech
lands to grammar school in Kranj, to folk schools in Kranj and Postojna,
Czech books to the girls’ high school in Ljubljana, and so forth.
One of the most significant were his contributions to Czech journals,
informing the Czechs of Slovene general conditions. Similarly, from Czech
newspapers he passed information on conditions in Czech lands and pub-
lished them in Bleiweis’ Novice (News), promoting again Slovene interest in
Slavdom and Slavic ideas.
In 1874 he returned to Prague but his heart remained with the Slo-
venes. He worked in some museum, he continued to report in the Czech
press on Slovenes, their literary, cultural and political events. He collected
biographies of Slovene cultural workers, writers and politicians for Ottův
Slovnik naučný. He founded Češko-slovensko društvo (Czech-Slovene Soci-
ety) to inform Czechs on Slovene conditions and cultural achievements. He
gave several talks on Slovenes to other societies such as the American La-
3 Dr. P., “Jan Lego,” Omladina (1907): 7.
300
