His family settled in the Prague suburb of Vinohrady in 1904 and that year he published a novel titled The End of Hackenschmid which was anti-Austrian.

[4] In 1911, he became involved in politics and joined the Czech Constitutionalist Progressive Party (Státoprávně pokroková strana).

Dyk stated that his group had not built the "Great Wall" as they were not opposed per se to German ideas, however they did see the dangers.

[4] His writings were designed to inspire nationalism in the fight to reclaim the Kingdom of Bohemia from Austrian rule.

With the emergence of the Lumír group writers like Vrchlický, Dyk himself and Julius Zeyer the focus turned away from German culture.

This change of focus is said to have led other Czech intellectuals to also look in this new direction for scientific, economic and social ideas.

In the times of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Viktor Dyk was one of the prominent intellectual opponents of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

[11] Viktor Dyk died of heart failure on 14 May 1931 while swimming in the sea near the island of Lopud, near Dubrovnik in Croatia.

Jiří Jílek created a life-sized bronze bust on a granite plinth in his birthplace of Mělník in the Bohemian area of the Czech Republic.

Barta notes that it is Dyk's book which is the basis of the average Czech's understanding of the Pied Piper story.

Klaus's speech was directed at the Czechs who were finding the fiscal restrictions of the economy difficult to bear.

Klaus appealed to nationalists with Dyk's suggestion of what the nation would think: "I will survive if you leave me – but without me you will surely die.