Pedagog a překladatel Ladislav Vymětal (1895–1940), rodák z Jaroměřic u Jevíčka
Teachera and Translator Ladislav Vymětal (1895–1940), the Native of Jaroměřice near Jevíčko

Summary/Abstract: Ladislav Vymětal, the prominent native from Jaroměřice near Jevíčko, was the big enthusiast of the English language which he intensively focused on during his unfortunately short life. He worked as an English teacher in Prague and as an author of many English textbooks, he was a great pioneer inthe field of English Philology in interwar Czechoslovakia. He published over twenty grammar books and textbooks for the English Institute in Prague, where he also worked, and then another books in Brno. His textbooks have been repeatedly published and used for a long time aft er the year 1945.Moreover, he was a significant translator of English written novels, of which the most important is certainly the first translation of the famous book Odysseus by James Joyce into Czech. Ladislav Vymětal died from a heart attack on 15 August 1940 in his hometown Jaroměřice near Jevíčko, wherewas buried in the local cemetery.

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