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Frank, Karl Hermann b. January 24, 1898 d. May 22, 1946
Czechosolvakian Nazi Leader. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army towards the end of World War I, he became involved in the Sudeten German National Socialist Party (1919) and gradually rose to party leadership. He was named deputy Gauleiter of the Sudetenland after it became part of Germany in 1938, and also became an official in the German SS. In 1939 Frank was appointed to a position where he would wield the most power over what remained of Czechosolvakia after German takeover...[Read More] (Bio by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye)
Dablice Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Fucik, Julius b. July 18, 1872 d. September 15, 1916
Composer. Born in Prague, he studied composition with Antonin Dvorak but chose to concentrate on light music. Most of his 400 works are marches, waltzes, and polkas. Fucik conducted military bands in Prague, Vienna, and Berlin, and for a time he was billed as "The John Philip Sousa of Bohemia". In 1913 he settled in Berlin and opened a music publishing firm, but the privations of World War I ruined his business and his health. He returned to Prague in 1916 and died there at 44. Fucik's...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Vysehradsky Hrbitov, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Gans, David b. 1541 d. 1613
Astronomer, assistant of Kepler and Tycho Brahe.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
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
Haas, Hugo b. February 18, 1901 d. December 1, 1968
Actor. Born in Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic, he became a star of the National Theater of Prague, where his greatest success was as Dr. Galen in Karel Kapec's play "The White Disease". When the Nazis invaded his homeland in 1938, Haas fled to the United States and worked as a character player in films such as "A Bell For Adano" (1945), "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami" (1947), "Fiesta" (1947), and "King Solomon's Mines" (1950). He also directed himself in several campy low-budget...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Jewish Cemetery, Brno, Jihomoravsky, 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
Hasek, Jaroslav b. April 30, 1883 d. January 3, 1923
Author. Immensely prolific, he had written over 1,000 short stories by the time he was 30. Conscripted into the Austrian Army in 1914, he spent most of World War I in Russian POW camps and after his release served as a commissar of the Red Army. Hasek's experiences were the basis for his monumental satire "The Good Soldier Svejk" (1923), about a lovable idiot who turns the crumbling Austrian Army upside-down with his naivete; it has been translated into 60 languages. Hasek planned the novel...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Old Lipnice Cemetery, Lipnice nad Sazavou, Vysocina, 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
Hlinka, Ivan b. January 26, 1950 d. August 16, 2004
Renowned Hockey Player and Coach. As a player, he won the Hockey World Championships with Czechoslovakia in 1972, 1976 and 1977. He is concidered one of the greatest players in the Czech hockey history, and was appointed "Hockey Legend of the Czech Republic". He also played for Vancouver canucks 1981-1983. After his successful hockey career, he started a new one, as a coach. He became the first European to coach a NHL-team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. He led the Czech Republic Team to win the...[Read More] (Bio by: Peter Robsahm)
Litvinov City Cemetery, Litvinov, Ustecky, Czech Republic
Hodácová, Lilly (Ludmila) b. November 5, 1910 d. December 8, 1998
Lilly was a Czech actress, writer and painter. She sang the song 'Lilly Marlene' in the Czech language. (Bio by: Jirka Kostal)
Hrbitov Kourim, Kourim, Stredocesky, Czech Republic
Plot: Czech Republic, Kourim
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
Janacek, Leos b. July 3, 1854 d. August 12, 1928
Composer. The son of a choirmaster, he founded the Organ Conservatory of Brno in 1881 and much of his life was devoted to teaching and scholarly research. Janacek was 50 when his first major composition, the opera "Jenufa" (1904), appeared; and it was not until that opera was staged in Prague in 1916 (when he was 62) that he enjoyed widespread success. This stirred him into a real sunburst of creativity and in his last decade Janacek produced one masterpiece after another: the symphonic...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Central Cemetery, Brno, Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic
Plot: Just off the main walkway
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.
Kapralova, Vitezslava b. January 24, 1915 d. June 16, 1940
Composer, Conductor. An exceptional Czech musician in the years between World Wars I and II. Although she died at 25, she left a substantial body of work and became one of the first internationally recognized female conductors. Kapralova was born in Brno, Moravia, and began music lessons at age nine with the encouragement of her father, composer Vaclav Kapral. She attended the Brno Conservatory from 1930 to 1935, winning top honors for her Piano Concerto in D minor (1935), and then spent...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Central Cemetery, Brno, Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic
Karel, Rudolf b. November 9, 1880 d. March 6, 1945
Composer. One of the leading Czech composers of his generation, he was born in Pilsen, Bohemia, and attended the National Conservatory in Prague from 1901 to 1904, taking master classes with composer Antonin Dvorak. During World War I he served on the Russian front in the Information Division of the Austro-Hungarian Army and later with the Czech Legion. In 1919 he was appointed professor of composition at the Prague Conservatory. Karel was a transitional figure in his country's musical...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
National Cemetery, Terezin (Theresienstadt), Ustecky, Czech Republic
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

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