Otakar Levý
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Otakar Levý (born September 3, 1896 in Uherské Hradiště , Austria-Hungary , † October 7, 1946 in Brno ) was a Czechoslovak literary historian, Romanist and translator from French.
Life
Levý studied Romance languages at the University of Prague from 1918 to 1920 , then in Dijon until 1922 . After graduation, he worked as a high school teacher in Košice until 1930 and as a lecturer at the Komenský University in Bratislava from 1930 to 1939 . After 1939 Levý was appointed first as an associate professor and in 1946 as a full professor at Masaryk University in Brno. Otakar Levý was the father of the writer Jiří Levý .
Works
Levý dealt primarily with French romanticism and works by Charles Baudelaire . Later he also translated medieval French literature, as well as works by Gustave Flaubert , Théophile Gautier , André Gide and Jules Romains .
literature
- Romantická duše, 1923
- Alfred de Vigny, 1929
- Baudelaire, jeho estetika a technika, 1947
- Básnické dílo F. Villona, 1932
- Básnické povídky Marie de France, 1935
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| SURNAME | Levý, Otakar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak literary historian, Romance writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uherské Hradiště , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1946 |
| Place of death | Brno |