Josef Svatopluk Machar
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Josef Svatopluk Machar before 1923
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Born | Kolín, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire |
29 February 1864
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |
Resting place | Brandýs nad Labem |
Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Nationality | Czech |
Josef Svatopluk Machar ([ˈjosɛf ˈsvatopluk ˈmaxar]; 1864 – 1942) was a Czech poet and essayist. A leader of the realist movement in Czech poetry and a master of colloquial Czech, Machar was active in anti-Austrian political circles in Vienna. Many of his poems were satires of political and social conditions. In the poetic cycle The Conscience of the Ages (1901–1921), of which Golgotha was the initial volume, he contrasted antique with Christian civilization, favoring the former. His Magdalena (1894, translated into English by Leo Wiener, 1916), a satirical novel in verse, concerns the treatment of women. Both Machar's use of colloquial diction and his brilliantly expressed skepticism greatly influenced Czech literature and public opinion.
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- 1854 births
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- People from Kolín
- People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
- Czech Realist Party politicians
- National Democratic Party (Czechoslovakia) politicians
- Members of the Revolutionary National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
- Czech writers
- Czech poets
- Male poets
- Czech male writers
- Freemasons