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Jan Mukařovský

Czech essayist, estheticist, literary theorist and university educator (1891-1975).

Born November 11th, 1891 in Písek. [ref]

Died February 8th, 1975 at 83 years old in Prague. [ref]

Occupations
academic, aesthetician, art historian, linguist, literary critic, literary scholar, pedagogue, philosopher, teacher, university teacher, writer

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.