Antonín Hartl

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Antonín Hartl (born December 11, 1885 in Kunkovice , † February 19, 1944 in Prague ) was a Czech journalist, publicist and translator.

Life

After he was responsible for the cultural affairs of Carpathian Ukraine in the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry in 1923 , he devoted himself increasingly to the problem of Russian culture, language and relationships within the then Czechoslovakia .

Hartl received his doctorate from Charles University in Prague in 1912 and worked as a researcher in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences until 1919 . After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, he became editor-in-chief of the press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1923 and was responsible for the journalistic evaluation of the efforts of the Prague government in the cultural field in Carpathian Ukraine (also known as Carpathian Russia at the time).

This task prompted Hartl to conduct further research and he began to deal with the history, culture and language of the Russians and their relationships within the Czechoslovak state. Hartl wrote several works as well as numerous essays on this topic and made a contribution to the development of Russian (and Ukrainian) culture in Czechoslovakia.

At the end of the 1930s, Hartl, along with Josef Hora , Josef Kopta , František Křelina , Jan Mukařovský and other writers, took part in the preparation of the commemorative volume "Věčný Mácha" (The Eternal Mácha) in honor of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha , which was published in 1940 in ČIN publisher appeared.

Hartl was a member of the Masonic Lodge "Pravda vítězí".

Works

(Selection, compiled from Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture et al.)

  • Osnovy rus'koi narodnoi kulturnoi polytyky, 1923 (Russian)
  • Kulturní život osvobozené Podkarpatské Rusi, 1924
  • Podkarpatští Rusíni a my, 1930
  • Literární obrození podkarpatských Rusínů v letech 1920-1930, 1930, German translation 1932
  • Písemnictví podkarpatských Rusínů, in: Československá vlastivěda, Vol. VII, 1933
  • Pozdravení Rusínů: výbor z literatury podkarpatoruské 1920-1935 (Náš východ, sv. 2, Bratislava, 1936)
  • Písemnictví podkarpatských Rusínů v XX. století, 1937
  • K jazykovým sporům na Podkarpatské Rusi, 1938

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Hartl, Antonin", in: Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture, 2002, p. 166, online books.google.de , accessed on January 11, 2010
  2. ↑ Listy starohradské kroniky 3–4 / 03 (November 2003), online www.jicinsko.cz , accessed on January 11, 2010
  3. ↑ Publisher comments on anthology Zednářské of Emanuel Lešehrad where Hartl wrote a great preface; online www.ceska-poezie.cz (Czech, only with registration), accessed on January 11, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Hartl, Antonín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech journalist, publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunkovice
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1944
Place of death Prague