Moric Fialka

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Moric von Fialka , also Moritz Fialka and Mořic Fialka , (born October 30, 1809 in Písek , Bohemia , † June 13, 1869 in Krakow , Galicia ) was a Czech-Austrian soldier, author and translator.

Life

Moric Fialka was born the son of a doctor. After attending school in Prague , Fialka became a cadet at the age of 15 and went through an officer career up to the rank of colonel , the highest rank of officer attainable in the imperial army for a man of bourgeois origin . Fialka was used as a soldier and military leader mainly inside the Habsburg monarchy in the suppression of social and national movements.

From 1838 to 1843 he was in the rank of first lieutenant as a language teacher at the Theresian Military Academy, where Tomáš Burian also taught alongside him . In 1844 he was promoted to captain.

During the revolutions of 1848/49, Fialka was ordered from his garrison in Theresienstadt to Prague by the Prague city commandant Windisch-Graetz , where he was a company commander in the suppression of the Whitsun uprising in Prague . He was then also employed in the October Uprising in Vienna , from December 1848 in Hungary and from April 20, 1849 in Ofen when the Hungarian War of Independence was put down . The actions brought him the promotion to major and in the next few years the deployment in Prague.

In 1859 he was raised to the nobility. He went to Trento , Austria , as a lieutenant colonel , to Mantua in 1861 and to Krakow in 1862 , where he was a member of a court martial when the Polish uprising was suppressed in 1863 . In 1864 he was promoted to colonel . Even before the Joint Austro-Hungarian Army was formed, Fialka was retired in 1864.

Fialka wrote military writings in his profession. He also wrote poetry and stories that he published in magazines. He translated various authors from English into Czech, his translation of the Oliver Twist was published in Prague in 1843 and the Christmas Carol in Prague in 1846, just three years after the first English edition.

Fialka was married to Caroline Hanslick. The daughter Olga Fialka , born in Theresienstadt in 1848 , became a painter and later the wife of the painter Károly Ferenczy .

Writings and translations (selection)

  • Charles Dickens: Štědrý večer: vánoční povídka . Prague: Jar. Pospíšil, 1846
  • Charles Dickens: Zwony: noworoční powídka o strašidlech . Prague: Jar. Pospíšil, 1847

literature

  • Lemma Moric Fialka , in: Ottův slovník naučný (Otto's Encyclopedia), Volume IX, pp. 157–158, Prague, 1895 (cs)
  • Josef Ernst: The history of Czech lessons and the Czech military language in the Austrian military . Vienna: Language inst. of the Armed Forces, National Defense Academy Vienna, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ottův slovník naučný, 1895
  2. ^ Richard Georg Plaschka : Avant-garde of resistance. Model cases of military rebellion in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 1, Vienna 2000, p. 73
personal data
SURNAME Fialka, Moric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fialka, Moric von (full name); Fialka, Moritz; Fialka, Mořic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Austrian soldier, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Písek , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1869
Place of death Krakow , Galicia