Jaroslav Kvapil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaroslav Kvapil

Czech politician, poet, theatre director, playwright, librettist and translator

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1868

Place of Birth: Chudenice, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1950

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, journalist, theater director, director, librettist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jaroslav Kvapil (25 September 1868 in Chudenice, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 January 1950 in Prague) was a Czech poet, theatre director, translator, playwright, and librettist.
From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory.
Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre (1921–1928).
He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvorák's Rusalka.Kvapil was the principal author of the Manifesto of Czech writers of 1917, signed by over two hundred leading Czechs, favouring the concept of Czech self-government.He was married to actress Hana Kvapilová from 1894 until her death in 1907.