Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic

Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (English: Jiří Karásek from Lvovice; January 24, 1871, Prague – March 5, 1951, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer and literary critic.

Thereafter, he left Bohemia for one year and after his return he started working as a clerk in the post office.

In 1894 he founded, together with Ernst Stroll, the well known magazine Modern Review, in which he published mainly Czech and French decadent literature and art.

[1] During his lifetime he gathered together an extensive private library (48,000 volumes) and a collection of Slavic art and graphics (40,000 items).

He was interested in occultism and was a member of the Czech society of hermetics "Hermetik Universalia".