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František Xaver Matějka
Franciszek Ksawery Matejko () (1789 or 13 January 1793 in Roudnice – 26 October 1860 in Kraków) was a Czech musician, father of Polish painter Jan Matejko. He was probably the son of farmer Josef Matějka and peasant woman Magdalena Knava from Roudnice, then in Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg monarchy, but other sources gave him other parents: organist František Josef Matějka and Mariana Dolanská. After his mother's death he lived in Olomouc with his uncle canon Urbánek. He learned music in Hradec Králové. After that he went to Poland and became a music teacher. On 22 November 1826 he married Joanna Karolina Rossberg, daughter of nobleman Jan Piotr Rossberg and his wife Anna Marianna Tusz. Franciszek and his wife had eleven children: *Franciszek Edward * Edmund Marcin *Zygmunt Hilary *Emilia Łucja *Alojzy (Adolf) Franciszek *Józef Eustachy *Karol Franciszek * Maria Waleria * Jan Alojzy *Kazimierz Wilhelm *Bolesław Wilhelm. Sources *Maria Szypowska ''Jan Matejko wszy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roudnice
Roudnice is a municipality and village in Hradec Králové District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 800 inhabitants. Etymology The name is derived from the red shades of colour (in Czech ''rudá'') of the water in the eponymous local brook, caused by the ore subsoil. Geography Roudnice is located about west of Hradec Králové. It lies in a flat agricultural landscape of the East Elbe Table. There are several lakes created by flooding sand-gravel quarries. The brook Roudnický potok flows through the municipality. History The first written mention of Roudnice is from 1384. At the end of the 14th century at the latest, a fortress was built north of the village. In 1513, it was acquired by the Pernštejn family and merged with the Pardubice estate. From 1560 until the abolition of serfdom in 1848, it was a property of the royal chamber. Demographics Transport There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality. Sights Roudni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobility
Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally appointed by and ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteristics associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles or simply formal functions (e.g., precedence), and vary by country and by era. Membership in the nobility, including rights and responsibilities, is typically hereditary and patrilineal. Membership in the nobility has historically been granted by a monarch or government, and acquisition of sufficient power, wealth, ownerships, or royal favour has occasionally enabled commoners to ascend into the nobility. There are often a variety of ranks within the noble class. Legal recognition of nobility has been much more common in monarchies, but nobility also existed in such regimes as the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), the Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matejko Family
Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as ''Stańczyk'' (1862), '' Rejtan'' (1866), ''Union of Lublin'' (1869),'' Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God'' (1873), or ''Battle of Grunwald'' (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland. Matejko spent most of his life in Kraków. He enrolled at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts at age fourteen, where he studied under notable artists such as Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and completed his first major historical painting in 1853. His early exposure to revolutions in Kraków ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
