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Alois Jirásek

Died in 1930

Alois Jirásek was born in 1851 in Hronov, in eastern Bohemia, the son of a weaver who became a baker. After the German-language gymnasium in Broumov and studies in history in Prague, he taught history from 1874 to 1909, fourteen years in Litomyšl and then in Prague, and wrote vast novels on the Czech past. In 1917 he signed the manifesto of Czech writers and sat from 1918 to 1925 in the National Assembly and then in the Senate. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize, he died in Prague on 12 March 1930 and was buried in Hronov.

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