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Alois Musil

Czech theologian, orientalist and explorer (1868–1944)

Alois Musil (30 June 1868 – 12 April 1944) was a Czech^[1]theologian, orientalist, explorer and bilingual Czech and German writer.

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As the first-born son, he had always supported his parents and siblings in every possible way.

3 See Martin Kröger, “Archäologen im Krieg: Bell, Lawrence, Musil Musil's career Alois Musil was born into a poor farmer family in Rychtářov.

Musil, Alois, -- 1868-1944.

Biography

Musil was the oldest son born in 1868 into an poor farming family in Moravia (then Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today Czech Republic). His birthplace of Rychtářov was in an area surrounded by German-speakers, allowing him and his brothers to learn to read and write both German and Czech.

He was a second cousin of Robert Musil, an Austrian writer.^[2] In the years 1887–1891 he studied Roman Catholic theology at the University of Olomouc, was consecrated as a priest in 1891 and received a doctorate in theology in 1895.

In the years 1895–1898 he studied at the Dominican Biblical School in Jerusalem, in 1897-1898 at the Jesuit University of St. Joseph in Beirut, 1899 in London, Cambridge and Berlin.^{[citation needed}