Albert Henry Wratislaw

Albert Henry Wratislaw (1821 –1892) was an English headmaster and Slavonic scholar of Czech descent.

Wratislaw's paternal grandfather Marc Mari Wratislaw (1735–1796), emigrated to England under the name "Marc Wratislavia" from Olomouc sometime between 1770–1771. and commenced M.A. in 1847.

As a result, in collaboration with Dr Charles Anthony Swainson of the college, he published Loci Communes: Common Places (1848).

During the long vacation of 1849 he visited Bohemia, studied the Czech language in Prague, and in the same autumn published at London Lyra Czecho Slovanska, or Bohemian poems, ancient and modern, translated from the original Slavonic, with an introductory essay, which he dedicated to Count Valerian Krasinski, as "from a descendant of a kindred race". Wratislaw was aware that regarding the Queen's Court Manuscript (Rukopis královédvorský) allegedly discovered by Václav Hanka, there were rising suspicions regarding its authenticity. But he dismissed the doubt, because sceptics had not laid out concrete arguments from rational grounds. Later developments branded the manuscript as a forgery, so that Professor Morfill, while the excellence of Wratislav's 1849 and 1852 translations, had to make a regretful remark on the inclusion of forged poetry.

He later published Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz (1862), which was a translation of a 1599 account by the then-young Count (1576–1635), from whom the Wratislaw family claim descent.

Later life He gave up his benefice (college living), owing mainly to failing sight, in 1889, and retired to Southsea. He died there at Graythwaite, Alhambra Road, on 3 November 1892, aged 69.

Alleged connection to the Wratislaw of Mitrovice Wratislaw's paternal grandfather Marc Wratislaw was denizated in 1793, and began styled himself "Count" Wratislaw of Mitrovice until his death in 1795.