- Jerome Of Prague
Jerome of Prague was one of the chief followers and most devoted friends of John Hus. He was born in Prague to a wealthy family; after taking his bachelor's degree at the University of Prague in 1398, he secured in 1399 permission to travel. In 1401 he returned to Prague, but in 1402 visited England, and in Oxford copied out the "Dialogus" and "Trialogus" of John Wyclif, and thus evinced his interest in Lollardry. - Adalbert Of Prague
Adalbert, a bishop of Prague, was martyred in his efforts, to which he had been instigated by the king of Poland Bolesław I the Brave, to convert the Baltic Prussians. He was later made the patron saint of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and Prussia. - Cosmas Of Prague
Cosmas of Prague was a Bohemian priest, writer and historian born in a noble family in Bohemia. Between 1075 and 1081, he studied in Liège. After his return to Bohemia, he became a priest and married Božetěcha, with whom he probably had a son. In 1086 Cosmas was appointed prebendary ("canonicus") of Prague, which was quite a prestigious position. As prebendary he also travelled through Europe on official matters. - Jaromir, Bishop Of Prague
Jaromir was the bishop of Prague from 1068 when he was appointed by his brother, Vratislaus II of Bohemia. The two were both sons of the Duke Bretislaus I. In 1063, Vratislaus had established a diocese at Olomouc and raised a monk of Brewnow, John, to the see. Jaromir was resentful of the loss of tithes and fiefs and the brothers entered into a long rivalry. - Václav Havel
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). - Václav Klaus
Václav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992-7). A free market oriented economist, he is generally ranked among the most important Czech politicians since the fall of the communist regime. - Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a composer and keyboardist. His music is as firmly rooted in the fundamentals of classical, jazz and rock, as it is committed to the future of synthesized sound, electronics, television, film and animation. His career spans from the early 1970s and still continues today. His compositions have won him several Grammy awards. - Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836, Prague-August 12, 1900, New York) was an Austrian-English-American chess player and the first official world chess champion. Known for his original contributions to chess strategy such as his ideas on positional play, Steinitz, along with Paul Morphy, is considered by many chess commentators to be the founder of modern chess. - Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch (Prague, April 29, 1885 - March 31, 1948) was a Czechoslovakian writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He was noted for his development of literary reportage. - Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 - August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German. - Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of altered states of consciousness for purposes of healing, growth, and insight. Grof is known in particular for his early studies of LSD and its effects on the psyche—the field of psychedelic psychotherapy. - Karel Husa
Karel Husa (born August 7, 1921 in Prague) is a Czech-born classical composer. He learned to play the violin and the piano in early childhood and, after passing his final examination at high school, he enrolled in the Prague Conservatoire in 1939 where he studied in a class of Jaroslav Ridky, a Czech composer with traditional leanings, and attended courses in conducting led by Metod Dolezil and Pavel Dedecek. - Anton Reicha
Anton (or Antonin or Antoine) Reicha (or Rejcha) (February 26, 1770 - May 28, 1836) was a Czech-born naturalized French composer, a flautist in his youth, and an influential theorist. He is best known today for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature, as well as early experiments with irregular time signatures. - Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. He is the co-author, along with Max Born, of one of the standard textbooks of optics, "Principles of Optics". - Otto Jelinek
Otto John Jelinek, PC (born Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 20, 1940-) is a businessman and former figure skater and Canadian Politician. Jelinek's family fled to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the beginning of the Cold War. He and his sister, Maria, became figure skaters and achieved prominence in 1962 when they won the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships that was held that year in Jelinek's birthplace of Prague. The pair had been warned not to return, … - Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner, (9 June, 1843 in Prague, [then in Austrian Empire] - 21 June, 1914 in Vienna, (then in Austria-Hungary), born as Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner was the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal, Franz-Josef Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (October 12 1768-January 4 1843), and wife, … - Pavel Tigrid
Pavel Tigrid (born October 27, 1917 in Prague, Czechoslovakia as Pavel Schoenfeld, died August 31, 2003 in Héricy near Paris, France. Publicist, publisher and author of Czech origin. He left Czechoslovakia as a young man to evade the Nazis. In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) for his work as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda and kept it for the rest of his life. Returning after the end of World War II, he continued his publishing career, … - Jana Sterbak
Jana Sterbak is a Canadian artist best known for her works constructed from meat. Two sculptures, "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic" (1987) and "Chair Apollinaire" (1999), were both works whose primary medium was cured flank steak. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sterback immigrated to Montréal, Québec in 1968. She acquired her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 at Montréal's Concordia University. - Alex Baumann
Alexander Sasha "Alex" Baumann (born April 21, 1964) is a Canadian athlete, who won two gold medals and set two world records in swimming at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV (German: "Karl IV", Czech: "Karel IV.", Hungarian: "IV. Károly"; 14 May 1316 - 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus (Václav), of the House of Luxembourg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death. He was the eldest son and heir of John the Blind, from whom he inherited Luxembourg and Bohemia on 26 August 1346. - Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986) was a Nobel prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist. Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921. He was a member of the Communist Party, the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines - "Rovnost", "Srsatec", and "Reflektor" - and the employee of a communist publishing house. - Emmy Destinn
Emmy Destinn was a renowned Czech operatic soprano. Destinn was born Emilie Pauline Kittel or Ema Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová in Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At first Destinn devoted herself to studying the violin, and intended to shine as a virtuoso on that instrument. When she was well on in her teens, however, her voice was so rich and full that she changed her mind and determined upon an operatic career. - Rudolf Margolius
Rudolf Margolius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Czechoslovakia 1949-1952, co-defendant in the Slánský trial (November 1952) The 1952 Slánský trial involved the Communist Party General Secretary, Rudolf Slánský, and his thirteen co-defendants. They were arrested, unjustly accused, tried, and executed as traitors and western spies. The trial was orchestrated by Soviet advisors, sent to Prague by Stalin, … - Alois Senefelder
Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 1771, Prague - 26 February 1834, Munich) was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1796. Born Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder in Prague where his actor father was appearing on stage. He was educated in Munich and won a scholarship to study law at Ingolstadt. The death of his father in 1791 forced him to leave his studies to support his mother and eight siblings, … - Julius Pokorny
Julius Pokorny was a scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism. He was born in Prague and studied at the University of Vienna, where he also taught from 1913 to 1920. From 1920 to 1935, he held the chair of Celtic philology at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, before the Nazis discovered that, in spite of being a German nationalist, he was of Jewish descent. - Jakob Hlasek
Jakob Hlasek (born November 12, 1964 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. The major highlights of Hlasek's career came in 1992. He won the French Open men's doubles title that year (partnering his fellow Swiss player Marc Rosset). He was also a member of Switzerland's teams which reached the final of the 1992 Davis Cup (where they were defeated by the United States), and won the 1992 Hopman Cup. - Miroslav Votava
Miroslav "Mirko" Votava is a German former footballer, now a coach. Born in Czechoslovakia, Votava came to Germany at a young age, and went on to represent West Germany five times, winning the 1980 European Championship. A midfielder, he played professionally for Borussia Dortmund, Atlético Madrid, Werder Bremen and VfB Oldenburg, and is fourth in the list of Bundesliga appearances, with 546. - Walter Trier
Walter Trier (25 June 1890, Prague - 8 July 1951 Craigleith, near Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) was an illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine "Lilliput". Trier's work either ignored or made light of the nightmares of Nazism and war through which he lived; he preferred delight and fantasy. - Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick was a Bohemian-Austrian writer on music, perhaps the most influential music critic of the 19th century. Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a merchant from Vienna. At the age of 18 Hanslick went to study music with Tomášek, one of Prague's most important musicians. - Jan Santini Aichel
Jan Blažej Santini Aichel, also called Giovanni Battista Santini, Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl, Jan Blažej Santini, Jan Santini Aichl, Giovanni Santini, Jan Blažej Santini-Eichel, Giovanni Santini-Aichl, Johann Blasius Santini-Aichel, Giovanni Blasius Santini, or Jan Blažej Santini-Aüchel, was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent a curious amalgam of the Baroque and Gothic styles. - Ferdinand Peroutka
Ferdinand Peroutka was a Czech journalist and writer. Peroutka was born to a Czech-German family in Prague in 1895. In 1913 he began his career as a journalist. After World War I, he became a editor-in-chief of a new newspaper "Tribuna" ("Tribune"). - Bernard Bolzano
Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 - December 18, 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, theologian, philosopher and logician of German mother tongue. He was born in Prague. - Jan Hernych
Jan Hernych is a professional male tennis player from Czech Republic. Born in Prague, he turned pro in 1998 and achieved his highest ranking (60) on July 4, 2005. He is currently 97th in the ATP rankings. In 2006 he contested his first final on the Tour, losing to Mario Ančić in a tournament on grass in the Netherlands. - Ernest Nagel
Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 - September 22, 1985) was among the most important philosophers of science of his time. Nagel was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic; then part of the Austro Hungarian Empire) and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10 with his family. He received a BSc from the City College of New York in 1923, and earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1930. Except for one year (1966-1967) at Rockefeller University, … - Walter Susskind
Jan Walter Susskind, was a Czech-born British conductor. He conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Susskind was born in Prague. His father was a Viennese music critic and his Czech mother was a piano teacher. At the State Conservatorium he studied under Josef Suk (Dvořák’s son in law and grandfather of the violinist Josef Suk). He later studied conducting under George Szell. - Alena Vrzáňová
Alena Vrzáňová (born May 16, 1931), also known as Ája Vrzáňová, is a former Czech figure skater. Vrzáňová is a two-time World Champion and 1950 European Champion. - Jan Švankmajer
Jan Švankmajer is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others. Švankmajer has gained a reputation over several decades for his distinctive use of stop-motion technique, and his ability to make surreal, nightmarish and yet somehow funny pictures. - Josef Sedlon
Josef Sedloň is a Czech DJ who works for Radio 1 in the Czech Republic. He is an expert on many types of music. Since the early '90s, Sedloň's career has been closely linked to the Prague alternative station Radio 1. He began DJing in 1992, at Klub 007 Strahov, using only CDs and audio cassettes. In 1995 he discovered the power of decks and vinyl, and began to attract fans with energetic sets full of acid trance and funky techno. - Wlastimil Hofman
Wlastimil Hofman was a Polish painter, one of the most popular painters of the interwar and postwar years. Hofman was born "Vlastimil Hofmann" in Prague to Ferdynand Hofmann, a Czech, and Teofila, a Polish woman. In 1889 Vlastimil moved to Kraków in Poland, where he studied at St Barbara’s School and then at the Jan III Sobieski high school. In 1896, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied under Jacek Malczewski. - Hugo Bergmann
Samuel (Schmuel) Hugo Bergman(n), or Samuel Bergman (December 25, 1883, Prague - June 18, 1975, Jerusalem) was a Czech-born German and Israeli Jewish philosopher. He emigrated to Palestine in 1920, and founded, together with Martin Buber, a movement promoting a "dual-national" area where Jews and Arabs could live under equal conditions. He translated several of Rudolf Steiner's books about threefolding to Hebrew.
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