František Langer

František Langer was born on 3 March 1888 at Vinohrady, the eldest of three brothers, in a non-practising Jewish family. A doctor in 1914, he served on the Galician front, was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1916 and became chief physician of the 1st regiment of the Czechoslovak legions. A friend of Hašek and of Karel Čapek, he remained a military doctor while writing. In 1939 he made his way to France and then to London, where he headed the medical service of the Czechoslovak army in exile; returning a general, he was scarcely able to publish before the end of the fifties and died in Prague on 2 August 1965.

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• TheatreThe Camel Through the Needle's EyeVelbloud uchem jehlyFrantišek Langer · 1923Literature