| Jindřich Šimon Baar | |
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| Born | (1869-02-07)7 February 1869 Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 24 October 1925(1925-10-24) (aged 56) Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation | Priest, author |
| Genre | Novels |
Jindřich Šimon Baar Czech pronunciation (7 February 1869, Klenčí pod Čerchovem – 24 October 1925, Klenčí pod Čerchovem) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement. As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.
Born into a peasant family, he did religious studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892. As a priest, he strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church.
Works
Among his novels are:
- Cestou křížovou (1900) – the first fruit, autobiographic description of the uneasy life as a reform priest
- Pro kravičku (1905)
- Farská panička (1906)
- Farské historky (1908)
- Jan Cimbura (1908) – highly idealized depiction of peasant life
- historical trilogy: Paní komisarka (1923), Osmačtyřicátníci (1924) and Lůsy (1925)
He also published several short stories and collections of fairy tales.
See also
References
- Menclová, Věra; Vaněk, Václav, eds. (2005). Slovník českých spisovatelů (in Czech). Prague: Libri. p. 55. ISBN 80-7277-179-5.
External links
- (in Czech) Biography
- (in Czech) Museum of Jindřich Šimon Baar in Klenčí pod Čerchovem
- English translation of Jan Cimbura by Blanch Zelmer