František Lexa was a Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

n Egyptologist. Lexa began his career as a secondary school teacher. Having learnt the Egyptian language

Egyptian language

Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...

 by himself, he became the first person to translate and publish Egyptian texts into Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

 in 1905. Lexa spent the rest of his career at Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...

, 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 Černý

Jaroslav Cerný (Egyptologist)

-Biography:Jaroslav Černý was born on 22 August 1898 in Pilsen in Austro-Hungary. He studied from 1917 till 1922 at the Charles University in Prague, where he received his doctorate in 1929. He took part in Bernard Bruyère's excavations at Deir el-Medina in 1925 and the village became the focus of...

 and Zbyněk Žába

Zbynek Žába

Zbyněk Žába was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist. In 1945 he commenced his studies on the subject and in 1949 he became an assistant to František Lexa...

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Works

• Papyrus Insinger
  Insinger Papyrus
  Insinger Papyrus is a papyrus find from Ancient Egypt and contains one of the oldest extant writings about Egyptian wisdom teachings...
  
  (in French, Librairie orientaliste: P. Geuthner, Paris; 1926)
• Výbor z mladší a starší literatury staroegyptské
• Náboženská literatura staroegyptská
• Staroegyptské čarodějnictví
• Obecné mravní nauky staroegyptské
• Grammaire démotique
• Veřejný život ve starém Egyptě