Historical FigureMale
Jakub Arbes
1840 – 1914
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryJakub Arbes was a Czech writer and intellectual. He is best known as the creator of the literary genre called romanetto and spent much of his professional life in France.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
June 12, 1840
Prague
Date of death
April 8, 1914
Prague
Citizenship
Austria–Hungary · Austrian Empire
Occupations & fields
translatorjournalistscience fiction writerwriterpoliticianplaywright
- Field and occupation
- český divadelný kritik, novinár, publicista, románopisec a spisovateľ
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