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Chudenice
Chudenice () is a market town in Klatovy District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 800 inhabitants. Administrative division Chudenice consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Chudenice (646) *Bezpravovice (17) *Býšov (4) *Lučice (36) *Slatina (30) Etymology During the history of the settlement, the names Chudenice and Chuděnice appeared alternately, before the name became stable in the 20th century. The name is derived from the personal name Chuděna, meaning "the village of Chuděna's people". Geography Chudenice is located about northwest of Klatovy and southwest of Plzeň. It lies in the Švihov Highlands. The highest point is a hill at above sea level. History The first written mention of Chudenice is from 1200. From the first half of the 13th century until 1945, Chudenice was continuously owned by the Czernin family. In 1592, the village was promoted to a Městys, market town by Emperor Rudolf I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Kvapil
Jaroslav Kvapil (25 September 1868 – 10 January 1950) was a Czech poet, theatre director, translator, playwright and librettist. Early life, education and family Jaroslav Josef Kvapil was born on 25 September 1868 in Chudenice, into the family of a psysician. He attended schools in Klatovy and Plzeň and graduated from the secondary school in 1886. He then gradually tried to study three fields (medicine, philology, law) at the Charles University, but finished none of them. Jaroslav Kvapil was married to actress Hana Kvapilová (née Kubešová) from 1894 until her death in 1907. They met in 1890. In 1910 he married for the second time, this time to actress Zdenka Rydlová (1884–1955). They had a daughter, Eva. Career and late life In 1888, Kvapil made his literary debut, when he published his poems in the '' Světozor'' magazine. From 1891, he worked as a journalist. From 1900, he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Roubal
Jan Roubal (16 August 1880 in Chudenice – 23 October 1971 in Prague) was a pioneer Czech entomologist who specialized in the systematics of beetles, especially the Staphylinidae, and is best known for his three-volume Catalogue of Coleoptera in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia, published from 1930 to 1941. Roubal was born in Chudenice to Jakub Roubal and Marie née Kašparovová. He graduated from the Klatovy Gymnasium and graduated with studies in natural sciences at Charles University, Prague before teaching in schools from 1905 to 1919 at Příbram and then becoming a headmaster at a girls' school in Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica (, also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Greater Fatra, Veľká Fatra, and t ... where he stayed until 1938. In his spare time, he made trips and collected beetles from the region which were e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klatovy District
Klatovy District () is a Okres, district in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Klatovy. With an area of , it is the largest district in the country. Administrative division Klatovy District is divided into three Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities with extended competence, administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Klatovy, Horažďovice and Sušice. List of municipalities Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Běhařov - Běšiny - Bezděkov (Klatovy District), Bezděkov - Biřkov - Bolešiny - Břežany (Klatovy District), Břežany - Budětice - Bukovník - ''Čachrov'' - Černíkov - Červené Poříčí - Chanovice - Chlistov - ''Chudenice'' - Chudenín - Číhaň - Čímice - ''Dešenice'' - Dlažov - Dlouhá Ves (Klatovy District), Dlouhá Ves - Dobršín - Dolany (Klatovy District), Dolany - Domoraz - Dražovice (Klatovy District), Dražovice - Frymburk (Klatovy District), Frymburk - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czernin Family
The Czernin family (; ) is a European noble family that was one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The family can claim descent from many important European noble families, including the distant one from the House of Habsburg. Legend It is said that about 1000 years ago, the king had a conflict with a Bohemian nobleman. He was so angry with him that he sent his troops into the nobleman's castle. The soldiers murdered the whole family except a baby boy, whose nurse had hidden him in a kettle in the kitchen. When the soldiers withdrew, people found the little child in the kettle, and they praised God for this miracle. They called the boy Czernin, which means "The Black" in Czech, because he was black all over his face after having lain in the kettle. The king was so impressed by the people's loyalty that he pardoned the little Czernin. History The family is descended from the clan of "Drslavici", like several other Bohemian families. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Reicha
Josef Reicha (12 February 1752 – 5 March 1795), also spelt Rejcha, was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha. Josef Reicha was born in Chudenice. In 1761 he moved to Prague, where he was taught cello by Franz Joseph Werner. In 1771, Reicha became first cellist in the orchestra of Prince () Kraft Ernst von Oettingen-Wallerstein. Together with the famous violinist Anton Janitsch, who also played in the orchestra, Reicha toured several European cities during the late 1770s and visited Leopold Mozart in Salzburg in 1778. In his letters to Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold praised Reicha's cello playing and compared the style of one of his cello concerts to those by Wolfgang Amadeus. Reicha adopted his nephew Anton in 1780 (Josef married in 1779, but the marriage produced no children) and subsequently taught him the violin and the piano. In 1785 Josef was made director of the orchestra in Bonn by Maximilian Francis of Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Městys
Městys (or, unofficially or obsolete, městečko iterally "small town", translated as " market town", is a status conferred on certain municipalities in the Czech Republic, lying in terms of size and importance higher than that of simple ''obec'' (municipality) but lower than that of ''město'' (city, town). Historically, a ''městys'' was a locality that had the right to stage livestock markets (and some other "extraordinary" and annual markets), and it is therefore translated as "market town". The term went out of official use in Czechoslovakia in 1954 but was reintroduced in the Czech Republic in 2006. As of September 2020, there are 228 municipalities on which the status of ''městys'' has been re-admitted. In all cases, these are municipalities that have requested the return of their former title. This title has not been newly awarded to any municipality that would not have it in the past—the law does not even set any specific criteria for it, only procedural competenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Maxmilián Kaňka
František Maxmilián Kaňka (19 August 1674 – 14 July 1766) was a Czech architect. He was among the most important and most prolific Baroque architects in the Czech lands. Life František Maxmilián Kaňka was born in Prague on 19 August 1674. His father Vít Václav Kaňka was a builder who built the fortifications of New Town of Prague. Kaňka became an apprentice of Paul Ignaz Bayer. He then lived abroad for a while (in Vienna and probably also in northern Italy). He was married twice. He married a second time at a relatively old age to a much younger wife. From 1733 or 1734, he no longer devoted himself to architecture and became a successful brewer. He was wealthy and had his offspring study law. He died in Prague on 14 July 1766, at the age of 91. Work After his return from abroad, he collaborated with leading architects of his time such as Giovanni Battista Alliprandi and Jan Santini Aichel. In contrast to other architects, such as Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Dobrovský
Josef Dobrovský (17 August 1753 – 6 January 1829) was a Czech philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech National Revival along with Josef Jungmann. Life and work Dobrovský was born at Balassagyarmat, Nógrád County, in the Kingdom of Hungary, when his father Jakub Doubravský (1701, Solnice – 1764, Horšovský Týn) was temporarily stationed as a soldier there. His mother was Magdalena Dobrovská (1733, Čáslav – 1797). He received his first education in the German school at Horšovský Týn, made his first acquaintance with the Czech language and soon made himself fluent in it at the Německý Brod gymnasium, and then studied for some time under the Jesuits at Klatovy. In 1769 he began to study philosophy at the University of Prague. In 1772 he was admitted among the Jesuits at Brno and was preparing for a Christian mission in India. However, the entire order was dissolved in the Czech lands in 1773 and Dobrovský thus retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg. Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways:Hotson, 1999. an ineffectual ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years' War; a great and influential patron of Northern Mannerism, Northern Mannerist art; and an intellectual devotee of occult arts and learning which helped seed what would be called the Scientific Revolution. Determined to unify Christendom, he initiated the Long Turkish War (1593–1606) with the Ottoman Empire. Exhausted by war, his citizens in Kingdom of Hungary (1526-1867), Hungary revolted in the Bocskai uprising, Bocskai Uprising, which led to more authority being given to his brother Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Matthias. Under his reign, there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Švihov Highlands
Švihov may refer to places in the Czech Republic: *Švihov (Klatovy District), a town in the Plzeň Region **Švihov Castle in the town *Švihov (Rakovník District), a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region *Švihov, a village and part of Drslavice (Prachatice District) in the South Bohemian Region *Švihov, a village and part of Miřetice (Chrudim District) in the Pardubice Region *Švihov Reservoir, a reservoir in the Vysočina and Central Bohemian regions {{DEFAULTSORT:Svihov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
