Jan Weiss
Czech bookwriter and writer
About Jan Weiss
Lived 1892 – 1972 (aged 79). Jan Weiss was a Czech writer, science fiction writer, czechoslovak legionary, civil servant, novelist and short story.
Jan Weiss (10 May 1892 – 7 March 1972) was a Czechoslovak writer, best known for his surrealist novel House of a Thousand Floors .
Early life Jan Weiss was born on 10 May 1892, at Valdštejnská 68 in the town of Jilemnice, the son of Josef Weiss and Filoména Richter; In 1917 he was transferred to the camp in Beryozovka, Zabaykalsky Krai, where his thumbs were amputated due to frostbite. There, he joined the Czechoslovak Legions in 1919.
Weiss retired from his job at the Public Works Ministry in 1947 and published stories until 1964.
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Who was Jan Weiss?
Czech bookwriter and writer (1892–1972)
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Jan Weiss was born on 10 May 1892 in Jilemnice.
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Jan Weiss died on 7 March 1972 in Prague.
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Jan Weiss was a writer, science fiction writer, czechoslovak legionary, civil servant, novelist and short story.
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Jan Weiss was Czech.
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