František Xaver Šalda

The family soon moved to Čáslav with his father's service, where František graduated from the municipal school and in 1878 went to Prague to study at the Academic Gymnasium, living at the time with his older brother in Vlašská Street in the Lesser Town.

After three years, he transferred to the real grammar school in Žitná Street in Prague II.

[2][3] He habilitated and from 1919 worked as a professor of Romance Literature at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague.

[4] A serious nervous disease (transverse myelitis) afflicted him from the 1880s; constant pain also affected his critical attitude towards people and reality.

In 1894-1908 he wrote for the editors of Otto's Dictionary of Czech, German, French and English literature and world painting.