Eliška Krásnohorská

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Eliška Krásnohorská
Portrait of Eliška Krásnohorská by Jan Vilímek
Portrait of Eliška Krásnohorská by Jan Vilímek
BornAlžběta Pechová
(1847-11-18)18 November 1847
Prague, Austrian Empire
Died26 November 1926(1926-11-26) (aged 79)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Resting placeOlšany Cemetery
OccupationWriter
NationalityCzech

Eliška Krásnohorská (18 November 1847, in

Byron.[1]

Krásnohorská wrote the libretti for four operas by Bedřich Smetana: The Kiss, The Secret, The Devil's Wall and Viola. She also wrote the libretto for Zdeněk Fibich's opera Blaník.[citation needed] In 1873, she founded the women's magazine Ženské listy, which she headed until handing it over to Jindřiška Flajšhansová in 1912.[2][3]: 75 

In 1890 Krásnohorská founded the

Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its language of instruction was Czech.[4][1]

References

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  2. ^ Vošahlíková, Pavla (17 August 2020). "Flajšhansová Jindřiška 4.9.1868-30.5.1931" [Jindřiška Flajšhansová 4 September 1868-30 May 1931]. Biografický slovník českých zemí (in Czech). Prague: Historical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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