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Jiří Polívka

Czech ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, literary theorist, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer (1858–1933).

Born March 6th, 1858 in Enns.

Died March 21st, 1933 at 75 years old in Libeň. [ref]

Occupations
ethnographer, folklorist, literary historian, pedagogue, slavist, teacher, university teacher, writer

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. Henry David Thoreau