Pavel Josef Šafařík

Pavel Josef Šafařík (Pavel Jozef Šafárik, 1795–1861) was a Slovak-born poet, philologist and literary historian who wrote in Czech. Bowring calls him Paul Joseph Šafarík, professor at the gymnasium of Neusatz, and praises his history of the Slavonic language and literature.

Bowring translates two of his poems: the long ballad of Prince Oldřich and the peasant girl Božena, and a lyric, Jarmila to Slawislaw.