Background
He was born in Kolín, Czechoslovakian Republic.
educationist playwright translator writer
He was born in Kolín, Czechoslovakian Republic.
Charles University in Prague.
His family originally were of German minority ethnics in Kolin which had been assimilated into Czechoslovakian people by intermarried. He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of Bohemian National Theatre in Prague.
Died of a heart attack in theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler"s army had occupied Austria.