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Karel Čapek

Died in 1938

Karel Čapek was born on 9 January 1890 in Malé Svatoňovice, the son of a doctor, and in 1915 defended a doctoral thesis in philosophy at Charles University. A journalist at Lidové noviny, close to President Masaryk, whose conversations he recorded, he helped found the Czechoslovak PEN club. The word robot, which appeared in one of his plays, was invented by his brother Josef. Attacked by the far right after Munich, he refused exile and died of pneumonia in Prague on 25 December 1938; he was on the list of people the Gestapo was to arrest.

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