Notables
Daniel Adam of Veleslavin
Daniel Adam of Veleslavin was a prominent humanist of the second half of the 16th century. He was a writer, philosopher, historian, publisher and university pedagogue. For his contributions, Daniel Ad...
Jan Jessenius
Jan Jessenius was born on December 27 1566 in Vratislav (today’s Poland) and died on June 21 1621 in Prague. He was a Slovakian physician, politician, and philosopher. He played a significant po...
Frantisek Palacky
Frantisek Palacky (1798 – 1876) was a Czech historian, politician, writer, and one of the most influential personas of the Czech national revival. He is considered the founder of modern Czech historio...
Alois Martin David
Alois Martin David was a Czech cartographer and astronomer born in a now no longer existing village Drevohryzy u Touzimi on the 8th of December, 1757. He died on 28th February, 1836 in the town of Te...
Bozena Nemcova
Bozena Nemcova is one of the most well-known writers in the Czech republic. However, her birth is shrouded with numerous mysteries. Some people claim that she was born in 1820 in the city of Vienna, w...
John of Luxembourg
John of Luxembourg was a Bohemian king, ruling during the first half of the 14th century, whose prominence in Czech culture despite being grandly overshadowed by that of his son Charles IV makes him ...
Joseph Stepling
Joseph Stepling was a Czech-German Jesuit priest, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and meteorologist born in Regensburg in 1716. His father was German, and his mother was Czech. After his father&...
Jan Jansky
Relationships and Family Jan Jansky was a Czech neurologist, psychiatrist and serologist. He was born on the 3rd of April, 1873 in the district of Smichov. He had a younger brother and a sister named...
George of Podebrady
The “king of two people” was the sixteenth king of Bohemia who is known primarily for ruling a divided nation. He earned his nickname by trying to maintain peace between his Hussite and Catholic subje...
Jan Tesanek
On the facade of the National Museum in Prague, there are names of people who have contributed to the history of the Czech Republic. There are philosophers, astronomers, and mathematicians. One of tho...
