sentences:  Jernej Kopitar seconded this opinion, accusing Hanka of being the author of the hoax.Many of the important Czech writers at the time, however, supported the manuscripts' authenticity including dictionary compiler and author of a Czech literary history Josef Jungmann, writer František Čelakovský, historian František Palacký, and poet-folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben.In England, John Bowring, who was a translator of Slavonic poetry, had dealings with authorities on both sides of the debate.