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Franz Xaver Kappus (The Young Poet)
Professor Horaček was one of Franz Xaver Kappus’s professors at the military academy in the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt. Horaček also taught Rainer Maria Rilke when the poet was a young man attending the Lower Military School in Sankt Pölten, Austria. Kappus was inspired to write a letter to Rilke after learning that he was one of Horaček’s former students.
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Professor Horaček Character Timeline in Letters to a Young Poet
The timeline below shows where the character Professor Horaček appears in Letters to a Young Poet. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Introduction
...Academy stopped to speak with him and examined the book in his hands. The professor, Horaček, knew Rilke when he was a young student in military school, remembering him as a...
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Letter 1
...will have been worthwhile. Rilke signs off his letter by expressing his fondness for Professor Horaček and thanking Kappus for writing.
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