Background
He was born Antonín Vančura, in Čáslav, to an old noble family of the Bohemian Brethren faith.
journalist Librarian playwright writer
He was born Antonín Vančura, in Čáslav, to an old noble family of the Bohemian Brethren faith.
He later studied linguistics of the Czechoslovakian and German languages at Prague University.
In his grammar-school years he became an anarchist. After 1910, he worked as a journalist for Lidové noviny, one of the leading Czechoslovakian newspapers. In the 1920s, he became the director of Brno Municipal Library.
In 1939, due to depression following Hitler"s occupation of Czechoslovakia, he committed suicide on 22 May in Brno.
Mahenova knihovna (Mahen"s Library, Brno City Library) is named after him. Mahen was the cousin of the novelist Vladislav Vančura.