Josef Hora - Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
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Josef Hora (8 July 1891 – 21 June 1945) was a Czech poet.
Waymark Code: WMR7FD
Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/22/2016
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Josef Hora was born in Dobrín, Litomerice District, Bohemia in a farmstead, which now houses the Museum of Josef Hora.
He was enrolled at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He joined the social democratic party in 1912 and started writing for its papers and magazines.
After graduating from a university (1916) with the help of Ivan Olbracht, he started work for Právo lidu (a major social democratic newspaper) and later for Rudé právo (a newly established communist newspaper) and became a member of the KSC (
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Hora stopped writing proletarian poetry and in 1929 he and several other Czech writers (Jaroslav Seifert, Vladislav Vancura, S.K. Neumann, Marie Majerová, Ivan Olbracht and his wife Helena Malírová) expressed disapproval with the new Stalinist leadership of Klement Gottwald.
In 1939, he wrote to a resistance magazine under the name of Jan Víra. In 1941, he withdrew from public life partly due to intensive intervention of Nazi censorship in the Czech press and partly due to his illness. Josef Hora died shortly after the liberation of Czechoslovakia in Prague at the age of 53 and was buried in Slavín.
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Josef Hora
1891 – 1945