Eduard Štorch

Bust of Eduard Štorch in his native Ostroměř

Eduard Štorch (born April 10, 1878 in Ostroměř , † June 25, 1956 in Prague ) was a Czech writer, educator and archaeologist.

Career

After graduating from secondary school in Hradec Králové , Štorch attended the teacher training college there. Afterwards he worked as a school councilor in northern and eastern Bohemia. From 1903 until his retirement in 1938, Štorch taught in Prague. Štorch studied archeology with Lubor Niederle . He was also interested in ethnography and biology .

In 1935, Štorch and Karel Čondl wrote a three-part history textbook for the community schools . The very progressive work with the title “Pracovní učebnice dějepisu pro školy měšťanské” ( Practical History Book for the Citizens School ) was particularly strongly attacked by the Catholic Church and in 1936 led to an interpellation by the Senator and Catechist Alois Roudnický ( ČSL ) in the Czechoslovak Parliament.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Štorch published a number of books on the prehistory and early history of Bohemia and Moravia, which were illustrated by Zdeněk Burian . He later processed this topic in books for young people. Štorch achieved notoriety in the German-speaking world primarily through the stories "Die Mammutjäger", "Der Bronzeschatz" and "Abenteuer am Große River", which were published in several editions. He found his final resting place in Lobeč , the setting of his novel “Minehava”.

Publications

Scientific works

• Člověk diluviální ( The Ice Age Man ), book for young people, 1907
• Praha v době kamenné ( Prague in the Stone Age ), 1910
• Praha v pravěku ( Prague in Prehistory ), 1916
• Praha v době prehistorické ( Prague in the Prehistoric Age ), 1921
• Pracovní učebnice dějepisu pro školy měšťanské ( Practical history book for the citizen school ), 1935

Fiction

• Lovci mamutů ( The Mammoth Hunters ), youth novel, 1918 / German edition: The Mammoth Hunters . Globus-Verlag Vienna, 1953 (translation Felix Rausch) and children's book publisher Berlin , 1958
• Libuše a Přemysl ( Libuše and Přemysl ), 1919
• Osada havranů ( The Settlement of the Ravens ), 1930
• Bronzový poklad ( The Bronze Treasure ), 1931 / German edition: The Bronze Treasure . Old Berlin publishing house Lucie Groszer , 1955
• U veliké řeky ( At the great river ), 1932 / German edition: Adventure at the great river . Old Berlin publisher Lucie Grozer, 1953
• Volání rodu ( Call of the Tribe ), 1934
• O Děvín a Velehrad ( About Děvín and Velehrad ), 1950
• Minehava ( Minehava ), 1950

Film adaptations

Under the title "Stories from the Stone Age", the following three books were filmed as a coherent story under the direction of Jan Schmidt ( ČSSR ):

• Osada havranů, 1977 (German title: The settlement of the ravens )
• U veliké řeky, 1977 (German title: On the great river )
• Volání rodu, 1978 (German title: Call of the Tribe )

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Eduard Štorch in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Literature by and about Eduard Štorch in the catalog of the German National Library