Gustav Pfleger Moravský

Gustav Pfleger Moravský (27 July 1833, Bystřice nad Pernštejnem – 20 September 1875, Prague) was a Czech novelist, poet and dramatist.

Gustav Pfleger Moravský spent his childhood and attended school in various places throughout Moravia, including Kojetín and Na Skalách near Lhota.

He also developed an interest in French literature, doing translations and writing critiques for the magazines Politik (German) and Národního pokroku (National Progress, Czech), where he also worked as an editor.

In 1863, he published one of his two major works, the novel Ztracený život (Lost Life), which involves the events of 1848, the repression that followed, and the fate of the revolutionary, Josef Václav Frič.

The following year, he produced another novel, Z malého světa (From a Small World), the first Czech-language novel about working-class life; describing events leading up to the Weavers' Uprising of 1844.