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Karel Hynek Mácha

Died in 1836

Karel Hynek Mácha was born in Prague in 1810, the son of a journeyman miller turned small grain merchant; the family, in straitened circumstances, moved several times. He studied law in Prague, acted in amateur troupes, drew the ruined castles he visited on foot and in 1834 walked as far as Venice. His 1835 diary encodes the passages on Eleonora Šomková, who bore him a son in October 1836. A clerk at Litoměřice, he died there on 6 November of that year, aged twenty-five, after helping to put out a fire, and was buried on the day planned for his wedding.

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