Jan Welzl was a Moravia

Moravia

Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

n traveller, adventurer, hunter, gold-digger, Eskimo chief and Chief Justice in New Siberia

New Siberia

New Siberia is the easternmost of the Anzhu Islands, the northern subgroup of the New Siberian Islands lying between the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. Its area of approximately 6,200 km² places it just outside the 100 largest islands in the world. New Siberia Island is low lying, rising...

 and later story-teller and writer. He is known under the pseudonym Eskymo Welzl or the nickname Arctic Bismarck.

Rudolf Těsnohlídek

Rudolf Tesnohlídek

Rudolf Těsnohlídek was a Czech writer, journalist and translator. He also used the pseudonym Arnošt Bellis.- Life :...

 began to write down his adventures on the basis of conversations with him. Pavel Eisner

Pavel Eisner

Pavel Eisner , also known as Paul Eisner and under the pseudonym Vincy Schwarze, was Czech-German linguist and translator and the author of many studies about Czech language...

 continued this but did not finish and later Bedřich Golombek

Bedrich Golombek

Bedřich Golombek was a Czech journalist and writer.Golombek was born into family of a coal miner. He studied at a secondary school in Ostrava, immediately afterwards began work for the newspaper Lidové noviny, in the office in Brno...

 and Edvard Valenta

Edvard Valenta

Edvard Valenta was a Czech journalist and writer.Valenta was born into a family of a medical doctor. After secondary school he started to study at a technical university but left soon for the work of journalist...

 completed the work. The book "Třicet let na zlatém severu" (literally "Thirty Years in the Golden North") had great success in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 and also abroad, where people suspected that "Eskymo Welzl" did not exist and that the real author was Karel Čapek

Karel Capek

Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...

who wrote the preface to foreign editions.

The asteroid 15425 Welzl, discovered on 24 September 1998, is named after him.