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Eduard Bass, born Eduard Schmidt, (1 January 1888 – 2 October 1946) was a Czech prose writer, journalist, singer, and actor. He studied at the institutes of technology in Prague and Zurich[1].
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Born in Prague, he worked as a singer, journalist and cabaret director from 1910. During World War I he worked as a traveling salesman and founded the satirical journal Šibeničky[1]. From 1921 he was an editor of the newspaper Lidové noviny and from 1933 its editor-in-chief.[2]
Among his works, the best known today is the humorous novel for youths Klapzubova jedenáctka (Klapzuba's Eleven - also known as The Chattertooth Eleven - 1922, about an invincible football team of 11 brothers), and the novel Cirkus Humberto (Circus Humberto, 1941, an epic saga about people working in circuses). He died in Prague in 1946.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Zipes, Jack (2006). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195146561.
- ^ "The Catalogue". katalog.ahmp.cz. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
External links
edit- Works by Eduard Bass at Faded Page (Canada)
- Short biography ((in Czech))
- Eduard Bass at IMDb
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