František Xaver Šalda

František Xaver Šalda studied at Faculty of Law, German University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague and Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. The recorded working language is Czech, French and German. The field of work recorded is literary criticism, aesthetics and poetry. Residence is recorded at birth house of F.

Baptized Franciscus Aloiysius Šalda, he was born in the family of František Šalda, a postal official, and Marie née Kleiner in Liberec. The family soon moved to Čáslav with his father's service, where František graduated from the municipal school and in 1878 went to Prague to study at the Academic Gymnasium, living at the time with his older brother in Vlašská Street in the Lesser Town. After three years, he transferred to the real grammar school in Žitná Street in Prague II. He went on to study law but did not finish his studies. In 1910, however, he defended his doctorate in art history at the Faculty of Philosophy (taking into account his previously published texts on literary and art criticism). He habilitated and from 1919 worked as a professor of Romance Literature at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. A serious nervous disease (transverse myelitis) afflicted him from the 1880s; constant pain also affected his critical attitude towards people and reality. Since 1899, partial paralysis of the body also limited his movement. Therefore, he lived alone, and apart from his love affair with Růžena Svobodová, he did not establish any closer relationships. However, he did not avoid friendly contacts in the cultural world. He died unmarried and childless. In his will, he made the Jedlička Institute, an institute for disabled children, his general heir. He wanted his villa to ring with the laughter and singing of its tiny inhabitants.

František Xaver Šalda is recorded with the occupation literary critic. Recorded as translator, literary critic, journalist, writer and aesthetician.