Richard Weiner

Richard Weiner was born on 6 November 1884 in Písek, the eldest of the five children of a Czech-speaking Jewish family that ran a distillery and a confectionery. A chemical engineer who graduated in Prague in 1906, he worked for a few years in the brewing industry before writing for Lidové noviny. Mobilised in 1914 on the Serbian front, discharged in 1915 after a nervous breakdown, he was from 1919 to 1936 the paper's correspondent in Paris, where he became close to the Grand Jeu group. He returned ill and died in a Prague sanatorium on 3 January 1937.

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• Short storiesLazebníkRichard Weiner · 1929not translated into EnglishLiterature