Jiří Mahen

Jiří Mahen (born: Antonín Vančura; 12 December 1882 – 22 May 1939) was a Czech novelist, playwright and essayist.

He was born Antonín Vančura, in Čáslav, to an old noble family of the Bohemian Brethren faith.

[1] He later studied linguistics of the Czech and German languages at Prague University.

In 1939, due to depression following Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, he committed suicide on 22 May in Brno.

His important texts are the novels Kamarádi svobody (Friends of Freedom) and Měsíc (The Moon), a novel involving poetism, the plays Mrtvé moře (Dead sea), written in 1917, Jánošík (Janosik), in 1910, and Generace (Generation), in 1921.