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| birth_name = Hana Pletánková
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| fields = Translation, ethnology
| workplaces = Faculty of Arts, [[Charles University]]
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| thesis1_title = Humor v bengálské lidové literatuře
| thesis2_title = Break-up for the Traditional Hindu Family as Reflected in Ashapurna Debi's Short Stories
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| thesis2_year = 1995
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'''Hana Preinhaelterová''' (née Pletánková; 12 September 1938 – 24 June 2018) was a Czech [[Indologist]] and translator, specialising in the [[Bengali language]] and [[Bengali literature|literature]]. She was well known for her ''Základní kurs bengálštiny'' ("Basic course in Bengali"), a set of textbooks for learning the language.

==Life and career==
Hana Pletánková was born in [[České Budějovice]] on 12 September 1938. In 1958, she graduated from the School of Economics in [[Plzeň]].<ref name=guild>{{cite web|url=http://databaze.obecprekladatelu.cz/databaze/P/PreinhaelterovaHana.htm|title=Preinhaelterová Hana|work=Czech Literary Translators Guild|accessdate=20 July 2019|publisher=Obec překladatelů}}</ref>

She studied Bengali and English at the [[Charles University]] in Prague under [[Dušan Zbavitel]]. For her postgraduate studies, she attended [[Visva-Bharati University]] at [[Santiniketan]] in India. Based on her experiences, she published '' Moje bengálské přítelkyně'' ("My Bengali Female Friends") in 1978, which was translated to Russian, Slovak and Bengali.<ref name=ffobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.ff.cuni.cz/2018/06/zemrela-bengalistka-prekladatelka-hana-preinhaelterova/|title=Zemřela bengalistka a překladatelka Hana Preinhaelterová|date=26 June 2018|publisher=Faculty of Arts, Charles University|accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref>

From 1964, she taught the [[Bengali language]] at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.

In 1968, she published her doctoral dissertation titled ''Humor v bengálské lidové literatuře'' ("Humour in Bengali Folk Literature").<ref name=guild/>

She compiled a four-part textbook of Bengali, ''Základní kurs bengálštiny'' and published in 1983. That same year, as a non-member of the Communist Party, she was purged and forced to leave Charles University when the teaching of Bengali was abolished.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Hana Preinhaelterová: A Bibliography|journal=Archiv Orientální|volume=86|year=1998|page=346|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qr0TAQA0AMAAJ}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She taught English and Bengali at a language school in Prague till 1990, when she was able to return to the Faculty of Arts. She now focused on cultural anthropology and the interconnection of social and religious aspects in Bengali life.<ref name=guild/> Her critical edition of ''bratas'', Bengali fertility rituals, ''Ó Matko Lakšmí, dej mi dar!'', was published in 2007.<ref name=bkc>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Studying Rabindranath Thakur within the Czech Bengali Studies|encyclopedia=Tagore - At Home in the World|editor1-first=Sanjukta|editor1-last=Dasgupta|editor2-first=Chinmoy|editor2-last=Guha|first=Blanka|last=Knotková-Čapková|year=2013|publisher=Sage|isbn=9788132111498}}</ref>

For her candidate dissertation, Preinhaelterová analysed the disintegration of the Bengali joint family as depicted in the works of [[Ashapoorna Devi]] (1992).<ref name=ffobit/> In 1997, her monograph ''Hinduista od zrozeni do zrozeni'' ("The Hindu from Birth to Rebirth"), depicted key stages in a Hindu person's life illustrated with specific cases. It was appreciated for its depth of coverage of ''the parameters of lives of Hindu women''.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Archiv Orientální]]|issue=3|volume=1968|year=2000|first=Branka|last=Knotková-Čapková|title=Hana Preinhaelterová, Hinduista od zrozeni do zrozeni, Review}}</ref>

Preinhaelterová published a number of translations from modern Bengali literature into the [[Czech language]]. She concentrated on short stories by authors such as [[Ashapoorna Devi]] and [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]]. She also translated from Czech to Bengali.<ref name=guild/>

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, a book of essays edited by Lubomír Ondračka, ''Mé zlaté Bengálsko: Studie k bengálskému náboženství a kultuře věnované Haně Preinhaelterové k jejím sedmdesátinám'', was published in 2008.

Preinhaelterová died on 24 June 2018.<ref name=ffobit/>

==Selected works==
===Monographs===
* {{cite book|title=O statečném Rámovi a věrné Sítě|year=1975|publisher=Albatros}}
* {{cite book|title=Hinduista od zrození do zrození|year=1997|isbn=80-7021-211-X|publisher=Vyšehrad}}
* {{cite book|title=Ó Matko Lakšmí, dej mi dar!|year=2007|isbn=978-80-86685-71-7|publisher=DharmaGaia}}

===Translations===
====To Czech====
* {{cite book|author=Jasimuddin|authorlink=Jasimuddin|title=Upovídaný Gopa|year=1977}}
* {{cite book|author=Various|title=Lásky nelaskavé|year=1986|publisher=Práce}}
* {{cite book|first=Rabindranath|last=Tagore|authorlink=Rabindranath Tagore|title=Sadhana - The Realisation of Life|trans-title=Sádhaná. O zlu a o lásce|year=1999}}
* {{cite book|first=Sunil|last=Gangopadhyay|authorlink=Sunil Gangopadhyay|title= Ohromný svět|year=2008}}
* {{cite book|first=Ashapoorna|last=Devi|authorlink=Ashapoorna Devi|title=Kdyby zdi promluvily |year=2009}}

====To Bengali====
* {{cite book|title=Sakhi sambad|year=1975|first=Božena |last=Němcová|authorlink=Božena Němcová}}
* {{cite book|title=Anubad|year=1976|first=Karel|last=Čapek|authorlink=Karel Čapek}}

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