Edmund Kirsch (16 November 1866 – 18 January 1954) was a
Czech businessman and translator.
Life
Edmund Kirsch was born in
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
on 16 November 1866. His father was managing director in one textile factory in Moscow. After graduating from textile school in Brno he was invited by his uncle
Edmund Pintner to get practice in the textile factory of
Vonwiller & Co. in
Žamberk.
By the end of the 1870s he had studied at college in
Denmark. Besides
Czech language and
Danish language he spoke German, English, French and Russian. After graduating in
Denmark he returned to Žamberk in 1885.
Popular culture
Novelist
Dan Brown used a name very similar to his "Edmond Kirsch" for the billionaire, futurist character in his 2017 novel
Origin.
[ Origin (Brown novel)]
References
Žamberské listy č.7. 2009 str.7
Žamberské listy č. 03. 2004 str. 14
1866 births
1954 deaths
Businesspeople from Brno
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Czech translators
19th-century Czech businesspeople
Businesspeople in textiles
Textile industry of the Czech Republic
Businesspeople from Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovak businesspeople
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