How to Pronounce František Lexa
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Apr 05, 1876 Pardubice, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic Died on 13 Jan 1960 (aged 83)
Czech academic, egyptologist, professor, university educator and science writer
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About Frantiek Lexa
- František Lexa (1876-1960) was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist.
- Lexa began his career as a secondary school teacher.
- Having learnt the Egyptian language by himself, he became the first person to translate and publish Egyptian texts into Czech in 1905.
- Lexa spent the rest of his career at Charles University in Prague, first as a private senior lecturer of Egyptology in 1919, then an associate professor in 1922, then Czechoslovakia's first Professor for Egyptology in 1927, and finally the first director of the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology in 1958.
- Lexa's students included Jaroslav Cerný and Zbynek Žába.
