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Gottwald, Klement b. November 23, 1896 d. March 14, 1953
Czech President, Communist Party Leader. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechosolvakia in 1921. From 1928 to 1943 he served in various positions in the Comintern. After the German occupation of Czechosolvakia in 1938, he went to Moscow and edited a newspaper that called for Czechosolvakian liberation. In 1946, after his party won the first Czech post-war election, he became the Prime Minister of Czechosolvakia. After the communist coup in February 1948, he succeeded...[Read More] (Bio by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye)
Olsanske hrbitovy, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Hacha, Emil b. July 12, 1872 d. June 26, 1945
Czech President. From 1918 to 1938, he served as a judge on the Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Czechosolvakia. After the Treaty of Munich and the forced resignation of President Edvard Benes in 1938, Hacha was chosen to serve as President. On March 14, 1939, he met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin and was forced to surrender his nation to Germany. He retained his post after the German occupation of Czechosolvakia, but was forced to swear an oath to Hitler and the Nazis. Early on...[Read More] (Bio by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye)
Vinohradsky Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Havel, Václav b. October 5, 1936 d. December 18, 2011
Czech Author, Statesman. He was the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989 to 1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993 to 2003). An internationally known playwright and dissident, he came to power after the 1989 "Velvet Revolution", the bloodless overthrow of communist rule in his country.
Vinohradsky Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: Havel Family Plot
Heyrovsky, Jaroslav b. December 20, 1890 d. March 27, 1967
Chemist. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1959. Born in Prague, Heyrovsky earned his doctorate in 1918. His field of study was polarography, a form of electrochemistry. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Vysehradsky Hrbitov, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Hrabal, Bohumil b. March 28, 1914 d. February 3, 1997
Author. He was born in Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century and particularly remembered for his best seller "Closely Watched Trains" (1965) (Ostře sledované vlaky), which was made into a film by Czech director Jiří Menzel. His best known works also include "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age," "The Little Town Where Time Stood Still," " I Served the King of England" and "Too Loud a Solitude." He died when he fell from a fifth...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Hradistko City Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Huss, John 'Jan Hus' [cenotaph] b. 1369 d. July 6, 1415
John Huss (Jan Hus) was a Bohemian theologian who became Confessor to the Queen under King Wenceslas IV. He opposed the selling of indulgences, and was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake. This set off the Hussite Wars which lasted until 1435. Huss became revered as a martyr. His 1915 monument displays his last words: "Truth will prevail." (Bio by: Geoff Walden)
Cause of death: burned at the stake
Old Town Square, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Jan III d. October 21, 1278
Bishop of Prague. His father came from a low noble family and his mother was a sister of bishop Jan II. After the death of Bishop Nikolaus of Újezd Jan was elected as his successor on February 1st, 1258 and was consecrated on May 12th, in Vienna. He was a close confidant of King Ottokar II and often participated in his family celebrations as well as political meetings. He participated at the Synod of Vienna (1267) and the Second Council of Lyon (1277), he had parts of St Vitus cathedral...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Jezek, Jaroslav b. September 25, 1906 d. January 1, 1942
Composer, Conductor, Pianist. Regarded as "The Father of Czech Jazz", he helped popularize that art form in his country by adapting jazz rhythms to a distinctively Slavic sense of melody. He worked in both the pop and classical spheres and combined the two in his compositions. Jezek was born in Prague. He became enamoured with jazz while studying at the National Conservatory under Joseph Suk (1924 to 1927) and his graduation piece, the Piano Concerto (1927), was constructed around modern...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Olsanske hrbitovy, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: First Municipal Section
Kafka, Franz b. July 3, 1883 d. June 3, 1924
Writer. He was born in a middle class Jewish family and grew up in the shadow of his domineering shopkeeper father, who impressed Kafka as an awesome patriarch. He finished law school in 1906 and start to work for an insurance agency. In 1917. tuberculosis forced him to take repeated sick leaves and finally, in 1922, to retire. He spent half his time after 1917 in sanatoriums and health resorts. Kafka led a fairly active social life, including acquaintance with many prominent literary and...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
New Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: Enter through the main gate and walk to the right side of the ceremonial hall within. There you will find a sign pointing to Kafka's grave. Follow the direction of the sign until you reach the sector 21 sign. Turn right at this sign and head towards the wall. Turn left when you get to the wall and walk until you reach the end of the sector (also marked by a sign). Kafka's grave is next to the sign, facing the wall.
Karo, Avigdor d. April 25, 1439
Poet and Scholar. Known as an outstanding scholar of the Kabbalah, he served as chief rabbi and court poet to Wenceslas IV. In 1389, after the massacre of some 3000 Jews in the Prague ghetto, Rabbi Karo, composed an elegy to commemorate the tragedy which was incorporated in the prayers of Sedichos. With his death in 1439, he was interred in the Old Jewish Cemetery, Europe's oldest surviving Jewish burial ground. His headstone, the oldest in the cemetery, is now on display in the Maisl Synagogue...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
King Jiri of Podebrady b. 1420 d. 1471
Hussite King of Bohemia, the first freely elected Czech ruler. (Bio by: David Conway)
Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: Crypt
King Karel IV of Bohemia b. May 14, 1316 d. November 29, 1378
Reforming King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor who founded the Charles University in Prague, built St. Vitus Cathedral and the Charles Bridge, and extended the capital. Father of the wastrel Vaclav IV. (Bio by: David Conway)
Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: Crypt
King Vaclav (Wenceslas) IV of Bohemia b. 1361 d. 1419
Wastrel son of King Karel IV. A drunkard and sadist, he was an incompetent monarch, twice imprisoned during his reign by his disgusted nobility. (Bio by: David Conway)
Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: Crypt
Kisch, Egon Erwin b. April 29, 1884 d. March 31, 1948
World famous reporter, journalist, writer and editor.
Vinohradsky Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Kovaly, Heda b. September 15, 1919 d. December 5, 2010
Author, Holocaust Survivor. She penned a best-selling account of life under two totalitarian regimes. Born to a well-off family, she was raised in Prague under comfortable circumstances until the Nazis annexed Czechoslovakia in 1941; shipped to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, she was transferred to Auschwitz in 1944, where her parents were executed. After a time at Christianstadt, she escaped in 1945 and was eventually able to rejoin her husband Rudolf Margolius, who had survived both Auschwitz and...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
New Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Kubelik, Rafael b. June 29, 1914 d. August 11, 1996
Orchestra Director and Musician. He was the son of the violinist Jan Kubelik. He studied at the conservatoire in Prague and from 1936 to 1939 and again from 1942 to 1948 he was conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He left the Czech Republic in the 1940s and he become conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1953, music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1955 to 1958, of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1979, and of the Metropolitan...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Vysehradsky Hrbitov, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Loew, Rabbi (Yehuda Levi Ben Bezalel) d. April 25, 1439
Noted Rabbi / 'The Maharal.'
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Ludmilla, Saint b. 860 d. September 15, 921
Grandmother of 'Good' King Wenceslas, and patron saint of Bohemia. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Murdered
Saint George's Basilica, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Luntschitz, Solomon Ephraim b. 1550 d. 1619
Cheid Rabbi of Prague, 1604-1619. Poet and writer. (Bio by: David Conway)
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Macha, Karel Hynek b. November 16, 1810 d. November 5, 1836
Czech romantic poet. He is chiefly remembered for his patriotic lyrical-epic poem 'Maj' ('May') .
Vysehradsky Hrbitov, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic

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