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Jan Rypka
Czech academic, literature historian, orientalist, translator and university educator.
Born May 20th, 1886 in Kroměříž. [ref]
Died December 29th, 1968 at 82 years old in Prague. [ref]
Occupations
non-fiction writer, orientalist, pedagogue, philologist, translator, university teacher
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