Abstract
Vaclav Matej Kramerius (9.2.1753-22.3.1808), writer, journalist and owner of the first Czech publishing house called "Czech Expedition" lived in a period of huge changes in the socio-economic structure. In his works we can see gradual enforcing of new social relations and hierarchies that were associated with an increase in literacy, religion, rationalization or centralization of state administration.
One of the conditions Kramerius highlights is the struggle to preserve the language. This feature is included in the analyzed texts as it relates the linguistic affinities of the Czechs to the so called Slavonic tribe.
I come mostly from travel writings published by Kramerius in years 1802-1804, which confirms Anderson's theory of language as a symbol of the antiquity of nation, at least in the area where the ethnic concept of the nation was enforced.