Stanislav Kostka Neumann
Stanislav Kostka Neumann (born Stanislav Jan Konstantin Václav Bohudar; 5 June 1875 – 28 June 1947) was Czech writer, poet, literary critic and journalist.
Biography
Stanislav Kostka Neumann was born on 5 June 1875 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He was arrested in 1893 for his anarchist tendencies and sentenced to fourteen months in prison. He served his sentence in Plzeň-Bory.[1]
In 1907, he moved to Bílovice nad Svitavou. He lived here until 1915. From 1915 to 1917, during World War I, Neumann served as a soldier in the medical corps during the campaign in Albania and Macedonia. After the war, he moved back to Prague. He was married twice.[2]
He has undergone many stages of creative: symbolist (I Am an Apostle of the New Life), anarchist (A Dream About a Crowd of Desperate People, and Other Verses), landscape lyric (The Book of Forests, Hills, and Waters), civilist (New Songs), communist (Red Songs) and others. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[3] He was a mentor of Jaroslav Seifert (Seifert dedicated his first book to Neumann).
He died on 28 June 1947 in Prague.
Honours
In 1964, a monument to Stanislav Kostka Neumann, created by Vincenc Makovský, was unveiled in Bílovice nad Svitavou.[2]
References
- ^ "Stanislav Kostka Neumann". Encyklopedie Brna (in Czech). Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Verše mu šly samy z pera, své sousedy však anarchista Neumann pobuřoval" (in Czech). iDNES.cz. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ^ "Stanislav Kostka Neumann".
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