# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiri-levy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:56.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiri-levy"
name: "Jiří Levý"
slug: "jiri-levy"
description: "Jiří Levý was a Czech literary theoretician, literary historian and translation theoretician. Levý's work was crucial for the development of translation theory in Czechoslovakia and it has subsequently influenced scholars internationally."
tagline: "Czech literary theorist and translator (1926-1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Lev%C3%BD_(portr%C3%A9t).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-08-08"
deathDate: "1967-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37
  momentum:             0.4032258064516129
  historical:           4.604644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Lev%C3%BD"
    title: "Jiří Levý"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Lev%C3%BD"
    title: "Jiří Levý"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Lev%C3%BD"
    title: "Jiří Levý"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Lev%C3%BD"
    title: "Jiří Levý"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Lev%C3%BD"
    title: "Jiří Levý"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump