Jan Neruda

Jan Neruda was born in 1834 in Malá Strana, in Prague, the son of a former soldier, a barracks canteen keeper and later a tobacconist, and of a servant. After attempts at law, in a military office and at the faculty of arts, he became a journalist: having joined the Národní listy in 1865, he contributed feuilletons there until his death and also edited the journals Květy and Lumír. With Hálek, he was one of the figures of the group that published the almanac Máj in 1858. Ill from 1880, he died in Prague on 22 August 1891, aged fifty-seven, and his funeral turned into a national demonstration.

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• Short storiesPrague TalesPovídky malostranskéJan Neruda · 1878Literature