Ignat Hermann - Chotebor, Czech Republic - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

The sandstone statue a Czech novelist, satirist and editor, Ignat Hermann (1854-1935) who was born in Chotebor was made in 1960 by three sculptors Josef Vitvar, Ladislav Kovarík and Josef Smetácek according to a design of Karel Opatrný, Hermann's cousin. The statue was unveiled on July 17, 1960. It is located at the round-about at the stret named after the writer - Hermannova' street. The over-life size statu (jeight 2.45 meters) depicts Ignat Hermann wearing a walking suit and a hat, with a coat over his left arm and an umbrella in the other one.

Biography

Ignát Herrmann was born on August 12, 1854 in Chotebor and he died on July 8th, 1935 in Revnice near Prague. He was a Czech novelist, satirist and editor. He sometimes used the pseudonym Vojta Machatý, Švanda.

The thirteenth child of a solicitor's copyist, he attended school in Hradec Králové, then in 1868 travelled to Prague to begin a career in retail. He worked for several companies, from 1873 for the publisher Otto-Verlag, for whom he became a courtroom reporter. From 1876 to 1878 he edited the satirical magazine Palecek; in 1882 he founded his own, Švanda dudák, which he edited almost continuously until 1930. He worked for several years at a law firm before becoming, in 1885, editor of the Národní listy, for which he had been an administrator. From 1888 he was chairman of the "May Society" of Czech authors (Májovci). He edited the first edition (1892-4) of the complete works of Jan Neruda.

His literary work was closely tied to his journalism, and mostly dealt with the personalities and life of Prague. His first novel was the partly autobiographical U snedeného krámu (1890). The same year he wrote a play, Manželova prítelkyne, but it was not successful. He wrote several serial novels like Páté pres deváté and Muž bez trináctky. In Národní listy he published his most successful novel Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara (1898) as well as the sequel Tchán Kondelík a zet Vejvara (1906). The main character, narrow-minded old "Papa Kondelík", is his most famous creation. His fiction has frequently been adapted for the cinema.

He wrote 387 short stories, but the only English translations are of "Childless" and "Mr Vašek." German translations are collected in Allerlei Tierchen und Leuchten (1935) and Ausgewählte Geschichten (1908). There are also a handful of Esperanto translations.

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