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Jindřich Šimon Baar Czech pronunciation (help·info) (7 February 1869, Klenčí pod Čerchovem – 24 October 1925, Klenčí pod Čerchovem) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement.[1] As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.

Jindřich Šimon Baar
Born	(1869-02-07)February 7, 1869 Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Austria-Hungary
Died	October 24, 1925(1925-10-24) (aged 56) Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Priest, author
Genre	Novels

Born into a peasant family, he did religious studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892. As a priest, he strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church.

Works

Among his novels are:

• Cestou křížovou (1900) – the first fruit, autobiographic description of the uneasy life as a reform priest
• Pro kravičku (1905)
• Farská panička (1906)
• Farské historky (1908)
• Jan Cimbura (1908) – highly idealized depiction of peasant life
• historical trilogy: Paní komisarka (1923), Osmačtyřicátníci (1924) and Lůsy (1925)

He also published several short stories and collections of fairy tales.

See also

• List of Czech writers

References

External links

• (in Czech) Biography
• (in Czech) Museum of Jindřich Šimon Baar in Klenčí pod Čerchovem
• English translation of Jan Cimbura by Blanch Zelmer^{[permanent dead link]}

На других языках

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- [en] Jindřich Šimon Baar

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[ru] Баар, Индржих Шимон

Индржих Шимон Баар (чеш. Jindřich Šimon Baar; 7 февраля 1869, Кленчи-под-Черховем — 24 октября 1925, Кленчи-под-Черховем) — чешский прозаик и католический священник. Представитель реалистического направления в литературе. Писал преимущественно сельскую прозу.

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