Author, Poet, Historian. He is most remembered as a Czech poet, along with being an archaeologist, cultural revivalist and historian with published data. Since his father was a baker by trade, this was the trade he learned as a boy. Noticing his interest in history, his family provided a way for him to go to school. As a fourteen-year-old, he was sent to Prague to attend a Piarist college-preparatory high school followed by Charles University. Before college, he started writing fiction with only two of his books surviving the test of time: “Krvočíše” a romance about growing grapes in celebration of King Charles IV of Bohemia and “Harp”, a tragedy. Upon graduation, he went to Vienna, Austria to study philosophy and law. To earn a living, he tutored students of noble families of Austria and became an associate of wealthy businessman Jan Harrach, who was a promoter of Czech culture and history. Upon graduating from the University of Vienna in 1843, he returned to Prague to establish an Archaeological Society and began documenting his data. Medieval history, archaeology and historiography were his main subject of his writings with his two most significant works being “Last Orebit” and “Dynasty”. From 1843 to 1850, he was the editor of the National Museum Magazine. In 1843, he published “Me and My Cup” under the name “J. Erazima Wocela” During this time, he married a poet, Barbara Jarosla, but in three years she died of tuberculosis along with their infant daughter. Depressed with the loss of his family, he wrote his book of poetry “Labyrinth Sláwy” in 1846 under the name of “J. Erazima Wocela”. In 1848, he remarried to Matylda Hovorkova, who was twenty years his junior. In 1850 he was appointed Associate Professor of Archaeology and Art History at Charles University in Prague. As author of numerous articles and scientific papers, he inadvertently introduced what would later become a widely accepted method of chemical analysis to determine the age of bronze objects. His most well-known work was the two-volume “Prehistory of the Czech Lands” dated 1866 and 1868. All his works have been digitized and are now online by the National Library of Czech Republic. Over his lifetime, he wrote numerous articles and gave numerous lectures on various subjects related to Czech history and was respected for his knowledge. He brought archaeology to his home country and made it a science. Of course, looking back on his work in the late 1800's, there are some shortcomings that time has given the answers but were not available to his era . In 1872 the bourgeois Czech writer Jakub Malý, who was an early scholar of Czech history and literature, promoter of the study of the English language and translator for the Czech people, published the biography “Jan Erazim Vocel”.