Viktor Dyk (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Viktor Dyk (Czech pronunciation: v ktor d k]) (December 31, 1877, P ovka u M lnika - May 14, 1931, near the island of Lopud, Yugoslavia) was a well-known Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. Viktor Dyk studied at a gymnasium in Prague (one of his teachers was Alois Jirasek) and then at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. In 1911, he became involved in politics and joined the Statopravn pokrokova strana. During the First World War, he was imprisoned in Vienna for his resistance activities against Austria-Hungary. In 1918, he co-founded the Czechoslovak National Democratic Party (in Czech: eskoslovenska narodni demokracie).