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Josef Čapek
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Czech painter and writer (1887–1945)
OverviewAI-generated
Josef Čapek was a male author from Czechia. Born in 1887, he died in 1945. His literary output includes works categorized under German audiobooks.
Records indicate varying counts of his works, with one source listing 92 works, another citing 5, and a third noting 2. He is referenced by 97 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887
- Died
- 1945
- Works
- 92
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 1890-01-09
- Active to
- 1938-12-25
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 342
- Total plays
- 22,245
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Josef+%C4%8Capek">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,589x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,255x
- 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
· 2020 · cited 8,249x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1887-03-23 ) 23 March 1887, Hronov , Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- April 1945 (1945-04-00) (aged 58), Lower Saxony , Nazi Germany
- Known for
- Invented the word 'robot'
- Notable work
- Povídání o Pejskovi a Kočičce , Pictures from the Insects' Life
- Movement
- Cubism
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Josef Čapek, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Josef Čapek ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈjozɛf ˈtʃapɛk]; 23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and poet. He invented the word 'robot', which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Josef Čapek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.