Jaroslav Durych

Jaroslav Durych was born on 2 December 1886 in Hradec Králové; orphaned of both father and mother before the age of eleven and raised by relatives, he was destined by his grandmother for the priesthood. A military scholarship made him a doctor: he served in Galicia during the Great War, then stayed in the army of the young republic, in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, at Olomouc and in Prague, rising to the rank of colonel. An uncompromising Catholic, he attacked Karel Čapek in a pamphlet in 1937. Dismissed in 1944, forbidden to publish under the occupation and then under the communist regime, he became a civilian doctor again and died in Prague on 7 April 1962.

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• NovelThe Descent of the IdolBlouděníJaroslav Durych · 1929Literature