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Bohuslav (given Name)
Bohuslav () is a Czech name, Czech masculine given name. The Polish language, Polish form of the name is Bogusław (given name), Bogusław. The name is derived from the roots ''Bohu-'' ("Bůh", meaning "God" in Czech, but originally "fortune, chance") and ''-slav'' ("fame, glory"). Notable people with the name include: * Bohuslav Balbín (1621–1688), Czech writer and historian * Bohuslav Balcar (1943–2017), Czech mathematician * Bohuslav Beránek (1946–2007) Czech orienteering competitor * Bohuslav Braum (born 1956), Czech weightlifter * Bohuslav Brauner (1855–1935), Czech chemist * Bohuslav Bílejovský (c. 1480 – 1555), Czech historian and theologian * Bohuslav Ceplecha (1977–2012), Czech rally co-driver * Bohuslav Chňoupek (1925–2004), Czechoslovak politician, journalist and writer * Bohuslav, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1829–1896), Bohemian nobleman, landowner and diplomat * Bohuslav Diviš (1942–1976), Czech mathematician * Bohuslav Ebermann (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogusław (given Name)
Bogusław (, also ''Bogosław'', ''Bohusław'', ''Bogsław'', Cyrillic: ''Богуслав'', ) is a Polish names, Polish masculine given name. It is derived from the roots ''Bogu-'' ("Bóg", meaning "God" in Polish language, Polish, but originally "fortune, chance") and ''-sław'' ("fame, glory"). The female equivalent of this Slavic names, Slavic name is Bogusława. An alternative spelling of the name is Bogislaw/Bogislav, which was primarily used by several Duke of Pomerania, Dukes of Pomerania. The Czech form of the name is Bohuslav (given name), Bohuslav. It is one of the few Slavic names, Slavic given names that are present throughout the Slavic language family, and is known in the Slavic countries since the beginning of the 13th century. It was popular in medieval times, where it has been recorded for about 700 people in Poland and during the 20th and early 21st centuries. It only dropped in popularity during the 16th century. Common among most Slavic nations, today the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Ečer
Bohuslav Ečer (31 July 1893 – 14 March 1954) was a Czechoslovak general of the judicial service and professor of international criminal law. He was also a member of the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, chairman of the Czechoslovak delegation to the International Military Tribunal for the Punishment of War Criminals in Nuremberg and an ''ad hoc'' judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Life Before the occupation Ečer was born on 31 July 1893. He was born into a family of a merchant, later a railway worker. He graduated in 1911 from the classical gymnasium in Kroměříž, then he enrolled at the law faculty of University of Vienna, but he did not graduate because he had to enlist in the army in 1915. After the war, he completed his legal studies at Charles University in Prague, where he received his Doctorate of Law in 1920, and for a short time was a trainee at the district court in Kroměříž, and later at the territorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (Christened 16 February 1684, Nymburk, Bohemia – 1 July 1742, Graz, Austria) was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era. He wrote among other works motets, other choral works (a fugue ''Laudetur Jesus Christus'' is cited by the Baroque Music Library as an excellent example of its kind) and organ solo works. Life He was a son of a Nymburk cantor named Samuel Černohorský. From 1700 to 1702 he studied philosophy at the Prague university. In 1704 Černohorský became a member of the Conventual Franciscan; later, in 1708 he was ordained as a priest. Nevertheless, in 1710 he left for Assisi, Italy to study music. Because he left without consent of his superiors he was expelled from Czech lands for ten years. From 1710 to 1715 he worked as an organist in the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi. He was called ''"Padre Boemo"'' in Italy. One of his students in Italy was Giuseppe Tartini. After the expiration of his punishment, he came ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Matoušek
Bohuslav Matoušek (born in Havlíčkův Brod, 26 September 1949) is a Czech violinist and violist. At present he is a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Prague and JAMU. He studied in the classes of Jaroslav Pekelský and Václav Snítil at Prague's Academy of Music. He has cooperated with Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Bernstein, Jaroslav Tůma, Czech Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Barocco sempre giovane etc. In 1985 he co-founded and performed as the primarius of the Stamic Quartet. He is Professor of the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Prizes * 1966 - Concertino Praga - 1st prize * 1970 - He received the special prize of the jury at the '' Tibor Varga International Violin Competition'' along with a Swiss grant, which he used to sustain himself during a yearlong course of study with Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Lucerne Lucerne ( ) or Luzern ()Other languages: ; ; ; . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphony, symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber music, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and briefly studied under Czech composer and violinist Josef Suk (composer), Josef Suk. After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1923 for Paris, Martinů deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. During the 1920s he experimented with modern French stylistic developments, exemplified by his orchestral works ''Half-time'' and ''La Bagarre''. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his ''La revue de cuisine, Kitchen Revue'' (''Kuchyňská revue''). In the early 1930s he found his main fount for compositional style: Neoclassicism (music), neoclassicism, creating textures far denser than those found in composers treating Stravinsky as a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Kokotek
Bohuslav Kokotek (; 16 June 1949 – 24 July 2016) was a Polish Czech Lutheran clergyman, journalist, activist of the Polish minority in the Czech Republic, and local politician. Biography Kokotek was born in 1949 in Lyžbice in Czechoslovakia in a Polish Evangelical family, the son of Rudolf and Anna. He graduated from primary school in Třinec with the Polish language, and then a Polish gymnasium in Český Těšín. In his youth, he also took piano lessons for ten years. After graduating from school, he unsuccessfully applied for admission to pedagogical studies at the University of Ostrava. During the Prague Spring, he started studying theology at the Evangelical-Augsburg faculty in Bratislava, after which he was called to perform military service. He served in the air force, i.e. securing flights and in the military staff. He was also the winner of the second place in the national Military Competition of Cultural Creativity. In 1973, he became the ordained minister of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Kirchmann
Bohuslav Kirchmann (15 April 1902 – 24 January 1990) was a Czech military officer and fencer. He competed in five events at the 1936 Summer Olympics, representing Czechoslovakia. Biography Kirchmann was born on 15 April 1902 in Slezská Ostrava, Austria-Hungary (now Ostrava, Czech Republic). He died on 24 January 1990 in Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P .... References 1902 births 1990 deaths Czech male fencers Czechoslovak male fencers Olympic fencers for Czechoslovakia Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Czechoslovak military personnel of World War II {{CzechRepublic-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Karlík
Bohuslav Karlík (November 25, 1908 – September 29, 1996) was a Czechoslovak flatwater and slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the silver in the C-1 1000 m event at Berlin in 1936. Karlík won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold in the C-2 10000 m (1938), a silver in the C-2 1000 m (1938), and a bronze in the C-2 10000 m events (1950). In canoe slalom, he won a silver medal in the C-1 team event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva. A native of Prague, Karlík teamed up with fellow canoeist Jan Brzák-Felix in 1955 to paddle the of the Vltava from České Budějovice to Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ... in 20 hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Hykš
Bohuslav Hykš (born 7 May 1889, date of death unknown) was a Czech tennis player. He competed for Bohemia at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics and for Czechoslovakia at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i .... References External links * 1889 births Year of death missing Czechoslovak male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Bohemia Olympic tennis players for Czechoslovakia Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Tennis players from Prague {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Hostinský
Bohuslav Hostinský (5 December 1884 – 12 April 1951) was a Czech mathematician and theoretical physicist. Early life and family Hostinský was born on 5 December 1884 in the New Town quarter of Prague in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.Matriční záznam o narození a křtu farnosti při kostele sv. Štěpána na Novém Městě pražském His father was a musicologist and professor of at |
Bohuslav Havránek
Bohuslav Havránek (January 30, 1893 – March 2, 1978) was a Czech philologist, Bohemist, Slavist, literary historian and professor who was a prominent member of the Prague Linguistic Circle. Life and career He was born in to the family of a teacher. After his graduation, he worked as a secondary school teacher, before completing his studies in 1928, with his work 'The Genera Verbi in the Slavic languages' ('Genera verbi v slovanských jazycích' in Czech). From 1917 to 1929 he worked as a high school professor at grammar schools in Prague (Truhlářská and Dušní ul.). He also worked in at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1926, Havránek helped found the Prague Linguistic Circle and was soon, alongside Vilém Mathesius, one of Czech linguistics' most important representatives and in the following years he was a co-creator of its linguistic theory and methodology. In 1935, he founded the linguistic journal 'Slovo a slovesnost'. In 1930 he became a professor at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Hasištejnský Z Lobkovic
Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic (; German: Bohuslaus Lobkowitz von Hassenstein) (1461 – 11 November 1510) was a nobleman, writer and humanist of the old Bohemian family (later the princes) of the House of Lobkowicz. Regardless of his Bohemian roots, he explicitly referred to himself as German. He was born at Hasištejn Castle, near Kadaň, Bohemia. He studied in Bologna and Ferrara (doctor of law, 1482) and converted from Utraquism to Catholicism there. After 1483, he became provost of Vyšehrad in Prague and between 1490–91 he travelled to the Holy Land and Egypt, earning the nickname "the Czech Ulysses". He was elected the bishop of Olomouc, but he was refused by the Pope The pope is the bishop of Rome and the Head of the Church#Catholic Church, visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, Roman pontiff, or sovereign pontiff. From the 8th century until 1870, the po .... After this, he lived with a few of his writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
