Josef Mach (writer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Josef Mach (born February 5, 1883 in Nymburk , † November 8, 1951 in Prague ) was a Czech poet, journalist and translator.

Mach attended grammar school in Mladá Boleslav , where he met František Gellner, who also attended school there, and worked on the school newspaper. With Gellner he published his first poems in Letáky magazine while he was still at school . He then studied philosophy in Prague and Innsbruck . Returning to Prague, he was one of the founding members of Syrinx , a young writers club. Together with Jaroslav Hašek he worked in the party for moderate progress within the limits of the law ( Strana mírného pokroku v mezích zákona ) with and wrote their party anthem; he was also friends with Karel Čapek . He wrote satirical texts for the Prague cabaret Rote Sieben ( Červená sedma ).

During the First World War , Mach worked as a teacher in Chicago and New York . In 1920 he became press attaché of the Czech Embassy in Washington ; from 1922 to 1927 he worked at the embassy in Rome , and from 1927 at the foreign ministry in Prague. He wrote various articles about his experiences abroad (for example about Italian fascism ), and later he mainly worked as a translator. He has translated works by Heinrich Heine , B. Traven , Edgar Allan Poe , Roark Bradford and O. Henry into Czech, among others .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Go on, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Nymburk
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1951
Place of death Prague