Viktor Dyk

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Viktor Dyk

Born	(1877-12-31)31 December 1877 Pšovka u Mělníka, Austria-Hungary
Died	14 May 1931(1931-05-14) (aged 53) Lopud, Yugoslavia
Occupation	Poet, Politician, Playwright, prose writer, journalist

Viktor Dyk (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvɪktor ˈdɪk]) (December 31, 1877 in Pšovka u Mělníka, Austria-Hungary – May 14, 1931 near the island of Lopud, Yugoslavia) was a well-known Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer.

His writings were politically charged and designed to inspire nationalism in the fight to reclaim the Czech Republic from Austrian rule.^[1]

Funeral procession, 1931

Viktor Dyk studied at a gymnasium in Prague (one of his teachers was Alois Jirásek) and then at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.

In 1911, he became involved in politics and joined the Státoprávně pokroková strana. During the First World War, he was imprisoned in Vienna for his resistance activities against Austria-Hungary. In 1918, he co-founded the Czechoslovak National Democratic Party (in Czech: Československá národní demokracie).

His birthplace

His political views were conservative and nationalist. In the times of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Viktor Dyk was one of the prominent intellectual opponents of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Viktor Dyk died of a heart failure while swimming in the sea near the island of Lopud.

Photo taken in 1899, aged 22

Works

Monument to Viktor Dyk in Mělník

Memorial plaque, Vinohrady

Grave of Viktor Dyk at the Olšanské hřbitovy

Poetry

A porta inferi, 1897
Síla života, 1898
Marnosti, 1900
Satiry a sarkasmy, 1905
Milá sedmi loupežníků, 1906
Pohádky z naší vesnice, 1910
Giuseppe Moro, 1911
Zápas Jiřího Macků, 1916
Noci chiméry, 1917
Devátá vlna 1930
Lehké a těžké kroky 1915
Anebo 1917
Okno 1921
Poslední rok 1922

Prose

Stud, 1900
Hučí jez a jiné prózy, 1903
Konec Hackenschmidův, 1904
Prosinec, 1906
Prsty Habakukovy, 1906
Píseň o vrbě, 1908
Příhody, 1911
Krysař, 1915
Tajemná dobrodružství Alexeje Iványče Kozulinova, 1923
Tichý dům, 1921
Zlý vítr, 1922
Prsty Habakukovy, 1925
Můj přítel Čehona, 1925
Dědivadelní hra, 1927
Holoubek Kuzma, 1928
Soykovy děti, 1929

Political literature

Ad usum pana presidenta republiky (1929 – criticism of Edvard Beneš and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
O národní stát (posthumously 1932–1938, 7 books od Dyk's political writing from 1917–1931)

Dramas

Epizoda, 1906
Posel, 1907
Zmoudření Dona Quijota, 1913
Veliký mág, 1914
Zvěrstva, 1919
Ondřej a drak, 1919
Revoluční trilogie, 1921
Napravený plukovník Švec, 1929 – support of Rudolf Medek

Memoirs

Vzpomínky a komentáře, 1927

References

↑ ”Viktor Dyk.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. 6th Edition. Columbia University Press. New York. November 1, 2011.

Persondata
Name	Dyk, Viktor
Alternative names
Short description	Writer, politician
Date of birth	December 31, 1877
Place of birth	Pšovka u Mělníka, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	May 14, 1931
Place of death	Lopud, Yugoslavia

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