WRITER

Alois Jirásek

1851 - 1930

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Alois Jirásek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈalojs ˈjɪraːsɛk]) (23 August 1851 – 12 March 1930) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice. He was close to many important Czech personalities like Mikoláš Aleš, Josef Václav Sládek, Karel Václav Rais or Zdeněk Nejedlý. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Jirásek is the 2,549th most popular writer (down from 2,259th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 276th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Czech Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alois Jirásek ranks 2,549 out of 7,302. Before him are Amélie Nothomb, Kamalaśīla, Giovanni Pascoli, Chariton, Ki no Tsurayuki, and Corrie ten Boom. After him are Ariwara no Narihira, Neil Simon, Dmytro Dontsov, Nikolay Kostomarov, Ceija Stojka, and Dnyaneshwar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Alois Jirásek ranks 44. Before him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Asa Griggs Candler, Otto Schott, Theodor Lipps, and Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Luis Ricardo Falero, Taytu Betul, Roque Sáenz Peña, Edward Walter Maunder, Émile Boirac, and Melvil Dewey. Among people deceased in 1930, Alois Jirásek ranks 58. Before him are Riccardo Drigo, Eric Lemming, Isidor Gunsberg, Emil Krebs, Oskar Nedbal, and Viggo Jensen. After him are Paul Levi, Pierina Legnani, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Mabel Normand, Adolf Wölfli, and Maximilian Njegovan.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alois Jirásek ranks 313 out of 1,200. Before him are Gorazd (1879), Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1137), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Georg Flegel (1566), Toyen (1902), and Karel Kosík (1926). After him are Miloslav Vlk (1932), Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), Václav Nedomanský (1944), Procopius of Sázava (970), Zdislava Berka (1215), and Ivan Hašek (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Alois Jirásek ranks 31. Before him are Princess Michael of Kent (1945), Josef Lada (1887), Petr Ginz (1928), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), Pavel Kohout (1928), and Karel Hynek Mácha (1810). After him are Ernst Weiss (1882), Józef Czapski (1896), Josef Jungmann (1773), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Josef Škvorecký (1924), and Petr Chelčický (1390).

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