Dobrovski, Joseph, a philologist, born in Gyarmet, in Hungary; devoted his life to the study of the Bohemian language and literature; wrote a history of them, the fruit of immense labour, under which his brain gave way more than once; was trained among the Jesuits (1753‒1829).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Döbereiner's Lamp * Dobrenter