Arne Novák
Arne Novák , born as Arnošt Novák (born March 2, 1880 in Litomyšl , Austria-Hungary , † November 26, 1939 in Polička ) was a Czech literary historian, Germanist and bohemist .
Life
He was a son of the high school teacher Josef Novák (born March 3, 1847 in Prague) and the writer Teréza Nováková , nee Langhaus, and graduated from high school in Litomyšl (Litomyšl) and Prague. Between 1898 and 1902 he studied German and Bohemian studies at the Charles University in Prague , in Berlin, Heidelberg and Munich and obtained his doctorate in philosophy in Prague in 1902. There he completed his habilitation in the subject of the history of Czech literature in 1906 and was then a high school professor until 1920.
From 1920 to 1939 he was a full professor of Czech literature at Masaryk University in Brno . Between 1938 and 1939 he was rector of this university twice . From 1921 he also worked as a permanent employee of the Lidové noviny newspaper . From 1930 to 1939 he was the editor of the conversational dictionary Ottův slovník naučný nové doby and worked for the magazines Volné směry , Lumír and Rozhledy .
Novák was u. a. Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and the National Council for Scientific Research in Prague.
Arne Novák provided an essential extension of the research point of view for the development of Czech literary culture, which was disseminated in numerous translations into European languages. He is also influential as an essayist to this day, although his works were not reprinted until the 1990s after the February revolution in 1948.
Publications
- with Jan Jakubec : The Czech literature of the present. 1907, OCLC 491492862 .
- with Jan Václav Novák: A Brief History of Czech Literature. 1853-1920. (Czech)
literature
- Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Hans Slapnicka: Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) . Volume III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , p. 67.
- R. Havel: Novák Arne. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 161.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Arne Novák in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Arne Novák in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arne Novák , biography (Czech)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Novák, Arne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Novák, Arnošt (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech literary historian, Germanist and bohemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Litomyšl |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1939 |
| Place of death | Polička |