František Omelka
František Omelka (born August 19, 1904 in Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště , † July 23, 1960 in Otrokovice ) was a Czech teacher of Czech and geography, author of young books and Esperanto translator.
Life
After attending high school in Uherské Hradiště , he passed his Abitur at the Pedagogical Institute in Přerov . There he met his wife with the same surname, also a teacher. Both married and wrote for various magazines. After the war he was a methodologist of the Czech language and was later recognized as an exemplary teacher. His youth books were published under his own name and under his pseudonym Rabatin , and they were illustrated mostly by Zdeněk Butian and Jaromír Vraštil . His most successful book was Štafeta , which has been translated into several languages.
He also published pedagogical treatises.
Works
- Stafette (Czech Štafeta) (published in 1950 by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin and 1957 by Winkler-Verlag Cologne) describes an actual incident from 1925, when a diphtheria epidemic broke out in Nome .
- Velký admirál
- Pomoc přijde z hor
- Vlci proti Mustangům
- Tondova dobrodružství
- Hore dědinů
- Nebezpečí láká
- Pasáček
- Začalo to v III. A.
Web links
- Literature by and about František Omelka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature and other media by and about František Omelka in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Frantisek Omelka in the ONB's collection for planned languages
see also list of Czech writers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Omelka, František |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Omelka, František Rabatin; Omelka, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech teacher of Czech and geography, author of books for young people and Esperanto translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1960 |
| Place of death | Otrokovice |