František Adolf Šubert
Czech theater manager and playwright (1849–1915)
František Adolf Šubert (sometimes spelled Schubert; 27 March 1849 – 8 September 1915) was a Czech writer, playwright, journalist and theatre director. He was the first director of the National Theatre in Prague.
Childhood and youth
Šubert was born on 27 March 1849 in Dobruška in eastern Bohemia. He was born as the ninth (and youngest) child in a poor family of a saddler and upholsterer, later inn-keeper and head of a tobacco warehouse. According to his parents' wishes, he was to become a priest.
Since childhood, he was keen on reading. "He didn't need to frolic either indoors or outdoors. Even less so at school. He wouldn't roam around, climb trees, or look for and pick birds' nests." He studied at the college in Hradec Králové, where he wrote his first literary works, historical short stories, epic poems, and dramas. He later studied classical philology, philosophy, literature and art history at the University of Prague.
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