Bedřich Golombek (February 5, 1901 in Hrušov, today part of

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

– March 31, 1961 in

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) was a

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journalist and writer. Golombek was born into the family of a

coal miner Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extrac ...

. He studied at a secondary school in Ostrava, and immediately afterwards (in 1919) began work for the newspaper ''

Lidové noviny ''Lidové noviny'' (''People's News'', or ''The People's Newspaper'', ) is a daily newspaper published in Prague, the Czech Republic. It is the oldest Czech daily still in print, and a newspaper of record. It is a national news daily covering po ...

'', in the office in

. Golombek started as a reporter, since 1930 he was editor-in-chief of the Sunday edition, since 1933 editor-in-chief of the afternoon edition. After

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he became the editor-in-chief at the main office of ''Lidové noviny'' in Prague but after Victorious February of 1948 (communist coup d'état) he was forced to leave. Later, he worked as a clerk in a factory in Brno.

Selected works

* Journalistic activity is the most valued and extensive legacy of Golombek. * Together with

Edvard Valenta Edvard Valenta (22 January 1901 in Prostějov – 21 August 1978 in Prague) was a Czech journalist and writer. Life Valenta was born into the family of a medical doctor. After finishing secondary school in 1918 he started to study at a technical ...

Golombek recorded stories of Jan Welzl, a Czech traveller and Eskimo chief. The stories were serialized in the newspaper and later, during the 1930s, published in four books. * ''Lidé na povrchu'', 1941. A novel about Ostrava region. * ''Dům o dvou poschodích'', 1942. A novel about Ostrava region. * ''Dnes a zítra. K padesátce Lidových novin'', 1944. A recollection of the history of the newspaper. * ''Co nebude v dějepise'', 1945. Description of life during occupation. * ''Rudolf Těsnohlídek'', 1946. Biography of writer and journalist

Rudolf Těsnohlídek Rudolf Těsnohlídek (7 June 1882 – 12 January 1928) was a Czechs, Czech writer, poet, journalist and translator. He also used the pseudonym Arnošt Bellis. Biography Těsnohlídek was born on 7 June 1882 in Čáslav, Austria-Hungary. He a ...

. * ''Perleťová květina'', 1959. Collection of short stories. * ''Čtení o veletrhu'', posthumously in 1961. Depiction of the atmosphere of fair trades in Brno.

References

Short biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Golombek, Bedrich 1901 births 1961 deaths Writers from Ostrava Czech journalists Czech male writers 20th-century journalists