Czech Republic
Jan Hus
Jan Hus Jan Hus, also called John Hus or John Huss, was born in Husinec around the year 1370 in Husinec and he died on the 6th of July, 1415 in Constance. He was a Czech theologian and philosopher. H...
Czech Gingerbread Christmas Cookies
Gingerbread cookies are a typical Czech Christmas confection. For more information about Czech Christmas traditions click here. This post was created by volunteers. You may help and support by clickin...
Nativity Scenes in Bohemia
Special pre-Christmas Show The first known Nativity scene in Bohemia was presented to the public by the Jesuits at their church of St. Climentus at Charles bridge in 1560. Today Nativity scenes demons...
Charles IV.
Charles IV also known as Charles of Luxembourg was born 14th of May, 1316 as Wenceslaus, son of the Czech king, John of Luxembourg and Elizabeth of Bohemia. As an infant, he was already imprisoned in ...
Emil Holub
Emil Holub One of the most famous explorers of the nineteenth century, Emil Holub was a doctor who fulfilled his dream of traveling throughout Africa. Emil was born in 1847 in a town in eastern Bohe...
Frantisek Adam Petrina
Prof. Ph.D. Frantisek Adam Petrina (December 24, 1799 – June 27, 1855) was a Czech scientist and mathematician. He was born in a tailor’s family in the town of Semily, which is near the city of ...
Jan Blahoslav
Jan Blahoslav Jan Blahoslav was a Czech priest and bishop of the Unity of the Brethren, pedagogue, humanistic writer, music theorist, and composer. He was born in Prerov on 20th February 1523. Early L...
Cosmas of Prague
Cosmas of Prague is deemed to be the first Czech historian known for his Czech chronicle “Chronica Boemorum” (Chronicle of the Bohemians). Not much is known about Cosmas of Prague, as the majority of ...
Bohuslav Balbin
Bohuslav Balbin is known as a Czech writer, who lived in the 17th century. Society sees him also as a geographer, historian and pedagogue. He was born on December 3rd in Hradec Kralove in the so-calle...
Otto Wichterle
Otto Wichterle was born on the 27th of October, 1913 in Prostejov in what was then Austria Hungary. He was a world-famous Czech inventor and scientist. One of his most notable inventions was the conta...
