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Jaroslav Vrchlický

Died in 1912

Jaroslav Vrchlický, whose real name was Emil Frída, was born in 1853 in Louny and spent part of his childhood with an uncle who was a parish priest, in Ovčáry. After a semester of theology, he studied history and Romance languages in Prague, then from 1875 to 1876 was tutor to the Montecuccoli counts, near Modena and in Livorno. Secretary of the Technical School of Prague from 1877, professor of comparative literature at the university from 1893, he wrote and translated at an unparalleled pace, from Dante to Hugo. The first Czech writer proposed for the Nobel, he died in Domažlice on 9 September 1912.

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