Dlabacž, Gottfried Johann (actually, Bohumír Jan Dlabac)
Dlabacž, Gottfried Johann (actually, Bohumír Jan Dlabac)
Dlabacž, Gottfried Johann (actually, Bo humír Jan Dlabac ), Bohemian music scholar; b. Cerhenice, near Český Brod, July 17, 1758; d. Prague, Feb. 4, 1820. He was librarian and choirmaster of the Premonstratensian monastery in Prague. He publ. a valuable reference work, Allgemeines historisches Kunstlerlexikonfur Bohmen… (three vols., 1815–18), and contributed articles to Riegger’s Materialien zur alien und neuen Statistik von Bohmen.
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