Jindřich Šimon Baar
Born	(1869-02-07)7 February 1869 Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Austria-Hungary
Died	24 October 1925(1925-10-24) (aged 56) Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Priest, author
Genre	Novels

Jindřich Šimon Baar Czech pronunciation^ⓘ (7 February 1869 – 24 October 1925) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement.^[1] As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.

Born into a peasant family, he did religious studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892. As a priest, he strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church.

Among his novels are:

• Cestou křížovou (1900) – the first fruit, autobiographic description of the uneasy life as a reform priest
• Pro kravičku (1905)
• Farská panička (1906)
• Farské historky (1908)
• Jan Cimbura (1908) – highly idealized depiction of peasant life
• historical trilogy: Paní komisarka (1923), Osmačtyřicátníci (1924) and Lůsy (1925)

He also published several short stories and collections of fairy tales.

• List of Czech writers

• (in Czech) Biography
• (in Czech) Museum of Jindřich Šimon Baar in Klenčí pod Čerchovem
• English translation of Jan Cimbura by Blanch Zelmer^{[permanent dead link]}