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Jindrich Baar
Jindřich Šimon Baar (February 7 1869 – October 24 1925, both in Klenčí pod Čerchovem) was Czech writer and poet. As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of countryside.
Born in peasant family, he studied religionistic and was ordained as Catholic priest in 1892. As priest Baar strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church.
Among his novels are: authobiographic description of uneasy life as reform priest: Cestou křížovou (1900), highly idealized depiction of peasant life Jan Cimbura (1908) and historical trilogy Paní komisarka (1923), Osmačtyřicátníci (1924) and Lůsy (1925).
He also published several short stories and collections of fairy tales.
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