CS:
Památník na Antonína Sovu v parku po nem pojmenovaném.
EN:
Memerial of Antonín Sova in Park named after him.
Nápis/Inscription:
Básník // (Poet)
Antonín Sova
*26.II.1864 +15.VII.1928 //
V Pacove // (In Pacov)
Zde uložen popel jeho // (Here is placed his ash)
26.II.1934 //
Kruh se uzavírá // (The circle is closing)
Antonín Sova (26. února 1864 Pacov – 16. srpna 1928 Pacov) byl ceský básník a prozaik, 1. reditel Mestské knihovny v Praze.
Životopis
Velký význam pro Sovovo básnické zrání melo lukavecké prátelství se sestrami básníka Jaroslava Vrchlického, které mu priblížily poezii lumírovcu. Gymnázium Sova studoval nejprve v Pelhrimove, Tábore a od roku 1880 v Písku, kde v polovine 80. let maturoval. První básnické príspevky otiskl ješte za stredoškolských studií pod pseudonymem Ilja Georgov.
Po maturite odešel do Prahy studovat práva, ale zanedlouho musel pro nedostatek financních prostredku studií zanechat a vrátit se domu. S pomocí básníka A. Heyduka, s nímž se seznámil v Písku, a J. Vrchlického se roku 1886 uchytil v Ottove slovníku naucném a o rok pozdeji nastoupil místo písare-protokolisty ve zdravotním referátu pražského magistrátu. Aktivne se úcastnil práce ve spolku beletristu Máj a v literárním odboru Umelecké besedy. Roku 1892 navštívil Itálii. Roku 1895 podepsal kolektivní vystoupení spisovatelu a publicistu manifest Ceské moderny. V letech 1898–1920 byl reditelem pražské mestské knihovny. V této funkci byl vyslán roku 1901 na exkurzi do knihoven v Nemecku a Belgii. Težká, bolestná choroba (s nejvetší pravdepodobností syfilis), která se u Sovy projevila již pred svetovou válkou, mu nakonec znemožnila volný pohyb. Zemrel 16. srpna 1928 v Pacove.
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Antonín Sova (26 February 1864 – 16 August 1928) was a Czech poet and the director of Prague Municipal Library.
He was born in Pacov, a small town in South Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, but from the age of two he grew up in nearby Lukavec. His father Jan was a teacher and choirmaster who occasionally composed. His mother died when he was 15 and his father married again (Sova never had a positive relationship with his stepmother Sabina). In Lukavec Antonín became acquainted with the sisters of Jaroslav Vrchlický. He studied at the grammar school in Pelhrimov, Tábor, and from 1881 to 1885 in Písek. He met the Písek-based poet Adolf Heyduk who helped him publish his first poems in literary magazines (he used the pen-names Ilja Georgov and for Lumír Valburga Turková). While at school he received the worst possible mark for morale because he ignored the interdict and wore a Czech tricolor tie in a park. He started studying law in Prague but he did not finish for lack of money. Jaroslav Vrchlický helped him find employment in Otto's encyclopedia editorial department which lasted for only a year. His next job was at the medical department of the Prague municipality. Eventually, from 1898 till he retired, he worked as a director of the Prague Municipal Library. He married Marie Kovaríková, who was almost 20 years younger, in 1900, and had a son Jan with her a year later. Their marriage broke up after several years, though. The poet contracted a disease that paralysed him for the last two decades of his life (probably syphilis). After the constitution of Czechoslovakia in 1918 he lived in Prague and was often visited by younger poets of various styles and political inclinations. In 1924 he moved "in his horsehair grave" to Pacov, where he died on a stormy August night in 1928. The funeral took place in Prague but his ashes were taken to a granite stone in Pacov.
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