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Jan Weiss (10 May 1892 – 7 March 1972) was a major Czech writer, most famous for his surreal book ''Dům o Tisíci Patrech'' (''House of Thousand Floors''). == Birth and early life == Weiss was born on 10 May 1892, in Valdštejnská ulice číslo 68 (Valdštejn street number 68) in the town of Jilemnice as the son of Josef Weiss (called by the local people "Monarch") and Filoména Richter. His mother died when he was aged five years in 1897. His father married again, to a German woman and had another three children. He and his cousin were known local troublemakers and they are said to have "entered local tradition". In 1913 he finished the Gymnasium in Hradec Králové and since 1913 studied law in Vienna, but in 1914 he was forced to go and fight in World War I, after studiing two semestres. Here, in 1916 by he was captured at Tarnopol and spent his time in two prisoner camps in the Siberia, where he contracted Typhoid fever. (Note: there exists a rumor that he was captured on the Italian front, but this is not true). In 1917 he was transferred to the camp in Berezkova, where they amputated his frozen thumbs. Here he joined the Czech Legions. It is known that the dealings of detainees who caught this disease were the main inspiration for his earlier works, most notably Barák Smrti. After 1919 he joined the Czechoslovak legions. He returned to Czechoslovakia in February 1920 (actually visiting this country for the first time, as he was born in Austria-Hungary, in the Bohemian Kingdom). After his return home he worked at the ministerium for public work ("veřejné práce"). At this time he was lodged in Borome, thanks to his uncle, a priest in Choteč. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Weiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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