Purists' attempts to cleanse the language of Germanisms (both real and fictitious) had been occurring by that time.
He saw in Jan Hus only an antagonist of Germanism, the destroyer of the University of Prague and of the sciences.
He is a representative of the National Democratic Party, a pan-German nationalist party in Germany.
Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806, Ostheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883, Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist associated with the German Nationalist movement.