bohumil mathesius

Bohumil Mathesius (July 14, 1888 - June 2, 1952), was a Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist expert on Russian literature. He was a professor on the Faculty of Philosophy at the Charles University in Prague. His brother is Vilm Mathesius. Bohumil Mathesius enriched the tradition of herald poetry by paraphrases of Chinese poetry: Zpěvy star Čny (Songs of old China), Nov zpěvy star Čny (New songs of old China), and Třet zpěvy star Čny (A third book of songs of old China). His very particular translating made available to the Czech literature works of Russian authors (Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Yesenin, Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov). He also translated from German, French and Norwegian literatures, notable among the last being Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Mathesius, Bohumil Mathesius, Bohumil

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