Nope. You can say Austrian Hungarian Empire or better, Prague. He, and the people of the time, would not say they lived in Austria -- which didn't exist eithe

Nope. You can say Austrian Hungarian Empire or better, Prague. He, and the people of the time, would not say they lived in Austria -- which didn't exist either. The people of the area spoke Czech. You can't shorten the Austrian Hungarian Empire to Austria or Hungary. It's both lazy and wrong. Also, the Czechs fought hard for their independence and achieved it during Kafka's lifetime. In the same way, literally no one says, "George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who lived in 18th-century England..." We don't call them English, despite having been born in a colony of England, because they identified themselves as American and were officially recognized as that in their lifetime.