Education
Charles University in Prague.
Charles University in Prague.
He is considered one of the most important Czechoslovakian translators of all time and was said to be proficient in 12 languages - English, French, Icelandic, Italian, Hungarian, German, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Tibetan. He produced some of the earliest Czechoslovakian language translations of Franz Kafka"s work. Eisner came from a Jewish family in Prague.
He was bilingual from his childhood.
He went to college at Prague"s German University, where he studied Slavonic, German, and Romance languages and graduated in 1918. He worked as a translator for the Czechoslovakian Chamber of Commerce and Crafts and, at the same time, edited for the German newspaper, Prager Presse.
During this time, he also contributed to several cultural magazines.