Jan Weiss was born on May 10, 1892 in Starkenbach, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Jilemnice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Die süße Zeit (1968), Slávny pes (1971) and Das war morgen (2023). He was married to Jaroslava Rasková. He died on March 7, 1972 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].