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Already as a student, Tyl started to be active in theatre and finally left school to become a member of the Hilmer traveling theatre company. When the company disbanded after two years of journeying around the countryside, he returned to Prague and got a job as a clerk in an infantry regiment's
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at the age of eleven. The family surname had several written forms – Tylly, Tylli, Tilly or Tyll – and was later changed to Tyl. Josef Kajetán had four younger siblings: one brother and three sisters, but except sister Anna none of them survived to adulthood.
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On 3 February 2013, Google Doodle celebrated Josef Kajetán Tyl’s 205th
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Tyl used several pen names that were often derived from the name of his hometown
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son of Jiří Tyl, a tailor and retired military band
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