František Lexa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Lexa

Czech academic, egyptologist, professor, university educator and science writer

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1876

Place of Birth: Pardubice, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1960

Profession: writer, pedagogue, egyptologist, archaeologist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

František Lexa (1876-1960) was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist.
Lexa began his career as a secondary school teacher.
Having learnt the Egyptian language by himself, he became the first person to translate and publish Egyptian texts into Czech in 1905.
Lexa spent the rest of his career at Charles University in Prague, 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 Cerný and Zbynek Žába.