Ivan Olbracht

Ivan Olbracht, born Kamil Zeman (6 January 1882 – 20 December 1952), was a Czech censor, writer, journalist and translator of German prose.

The son of writer Antal Stašek and his Jewish-born Catholic convert wife Kamila Schönfeldová.

Olbracht studied law and philosophy in Prague and Berlin, he left before graduation, however, choosing the career of a journalist.

In 1905, he first began editing a social-democratic workers' newspaper in Vienna (Dělnické listy [cs], Historical Papers), where he worked until 1916.

The following year, he published Hory a staletí (Mountains and Centuries), which was a combination of political ethnography and criticism of what he perceived as the Czechoslovak government's colonialist policies in Podkarpatská Rus.

His books set in Carpathian Ruthenia are regarded as his best, reflecting his gift of combining documentary realism and fictional drama.

Ivan Olbracht memorial in Kolochava village, now part of Ukraine .
A school named after Olbracht in the Czech town of Semily.