František gel

Memorial plaque on the house where František Gel was born in Město Albrechtice

František Gel (born September 18, 1901 in Olbersdorf , † October 17, 1972 in Prague ; also František Feigel ) was a Czech journalist, radio presenter, writer and translator.

In 1919, after graduating from high school, which he passed in Prostějov , he completed a one-year business degree at the Business Academy, then he took law in Brno . However, he did not finish his studies and began in 1924 as a reporter for the Prague daily newspaper Soudní síň (courtroom) and as editor of the Lidové noviny (people's newspaper). In 1933 he switched to the Melantrich publishing house, but in 1939 had to flee abroad before the Nazi regime and joined the Czechoslovak army in exile in France . After the fall of France he worked as a war correspondent in England . His Jewish parents died in a German concentration camp .

After the end of National Socialism, he reported on the Nuremberg Trials , then worked for the Czechoslovak Radio , in diplomatic services and then again for the radio. He prepared youth programs about famous people. He taught journalism at the Charles University in Prague .

Journalistic activity

Gel wrote factual reports, court reports, and translated from English , French, and Latin .

In 1931 his first book O lidských povoláních ( About human professions ) was published. 1952 then Internacionála a Marseillaise ( Internationale und Marseillaise ). In 1957 there was a biography about the pilot Evžen Čihák , Jak jsem létal a padal ( How I flew and fell ), in 1959 the description of the life of Louis Pasteur ( slayer of invisible predators ). The books Syn čarodějnice ( Son of the Enchantress ) about Johannes Kepler and Pane doktore ( Doctor ) deal with history on the history of medicine.

Web links

• Literature by and about František Gel in the catalog of the German National Library