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Viktor Dyk

Died in 1931

Viktor Dyk was born on 31 December 1877 in Pšovka, near Mělník, the son of the steward of a Lobkowicz estate, and had Alois Jirásek as a teacher at his Prague secondary school. A law graduate, he gave up the bar in the year of his examination, 1905, and lived by journalism; from 1907 until his death he took part in the editing of the review Lumír. An opponent of Austria, he was imprisoned in Vienna in 1916 and 1917, then was a member of parliament from 1918 to 1925 and a senator. He died on 14 May 1931 of a heart attack while swimming near the island of Lopud.

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