Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod (21 February 1860 – 3 November 1927) was a Czech naturalist writer and a journalist.
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Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod
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- Name
- Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod
- Birth Name
- Karel Matěj Čapek
- Born
- 21 February 1860
- Birthplace
- Domažlice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 3 November 1927
- Place of death
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia.
- Occupation
- writer, journalist, playwright, critic, dramaturge and editing staff.
- Languages
- Czech.
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• Name — Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod • Birth Name — Karel Matěj Čapek • Born — 21 February 1860 • Birthplace — Domažlice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary • Died — 3 November 1927 • Place of death — Prague, Czechoslovakia
Biography
Biography
Karel Matěj Čapek was born on 21 February 1860 in Domažlice. In 1879, he graduated at the gymnasium in Domažlice. He was a long-term cooperator of the Národní listy journal, and after Karel Čapek began to work in the editorial office (in 1917), Čapek accepted the nickname "Chod".
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Work
• Povídky, 1892 • V třetím dvoře, novel 1895 • Nedělní povídky, 1897 • Osmero novel: 1900-1903 • Patero novel 1900-1903 • Kašpar Lén mstitel, novel, 1908 • Z města i obvodu, novel, 1913 • Antonín Vondrejc. novel, 1915 • Turbína, novel, 1916 • Ad hoc! novelle, 1919 • Nejzápadnější Slovan (The westernmost Slav), 1921 • Jindrové, novel, 1921 • Větrník: autoanalytic-synthetic novel, 1923 • Vilém Rozkoč, novel, 1923 • Humoreska, 1924 • Labyrint světa, 1926 • Řešany, novel, 1927 • An der Rotationsmaschine, novelle, 1928 • Spisy, 1938–41
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, portrét od Bohumila Vavrouška.
Bohumil Vavroušek (1875–1939) · National Library of the Czech Republic
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