Karel Václav Rais
Karel Václav Rais (4 January 1859 – 8 July 1926) was a Czech writer and poet. He was a realist novelist and author of the so-called country prose. But he also wrote numerous books for youth and children.
Also recorded as Karel Vaclav Rais · Prokop Bodlák
Karel Václav Rais
Jan Mulač (1845 - 1905) · Světozor, year 1895-6, issue 30, digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences · Public domain
- Born
- 1859. · Lázně Bělohrad.
- Died
- 1926. · Prague.
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia.
- Occupation
- writer, poet and teacher.
- Fields
- rural literature.
- Known for
- Kalibův zločin and Západ.
- Languages
- Czech.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Karel Václav Rais (4 January 1859 – 8 July 1926) was a Czech writer and poet. He was a realist novelist and author of the so-called country prose. But he also wrote numerous books for youth and children.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Karel Václav Rais. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q650542 · wikipedia · Karel Václav Rais
In this article
Biography
Biography
Rais was born into the family of a simple farm laborer and weaver. He studied in Jičín and Prague. In the latter one, since 1899, he was director of the citizen school in Vinohrady. During his life in Prague he kept in touch with many Czech artists, including Alois Jirásek, Zikmund Winter, Josef Václav Sládek, Ignát Herrmann, and Josef Thomayer. He was one of the editors of the magazine Zvon, and wrote contributions to numerous other magazines as well. He was a member of the board of the literary company Máj and the society for national education Svatobor. He died in 1926 and he was buried in Vinohrady Cemetery.
Selected works
Selected works
Kalibův zločin - 1895 Západ - 1896
Karel Václav Rais (1859–1926) – a statue located outside the Elementary School "Na Habru" in Hořice, Czech Republic.
Jirka23
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1859
Karel Václav Rais was born in 1859 at Lázně Bělohrad.
1926
Karel Václav Rais died in 1926 at Prague.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Lázně Bělohrad.
Birth place
Prague.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q650542: Karel Václav Rais
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
- “Karel Václav Rais”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
scholarly publication
- Rais, Karel Václav; Ps. Prokop Bodlák
Scholarly · Crossref registry
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
scholarly publication
Rais, Karel Václav; Ps. Prokop BodlákCrossref registry
Verifiedreference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q650542: Karel Václav RaisWikimedia Foundation
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
38,661 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Karel SabinaAuthor
- Karel SchoemanAuthor
- Karel SchulzAuthor
- Karel TomanAuthor
- Karel van de WoestijneAuthor
- Karel van Mander the ElderAuthor
- Karen AabyeAuthor
- Karen ArmstrongAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Karel Václav Rais?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.