Find A Grave - 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
Maisel, Markus Mordechai b. 1528 d. 1601
Mayor of the Prague Jewish Community. Began the Klaus Synagogue.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Martinu, Bohuslav b. December 8, 1890 d. August 28, 1959
Composer. An outstanding Czech musician of the 1900s. His most characteristic music blended French Neoclassical form with themes and folk idioms of his homeland. He is particularly noted for his symphonic and chamber works. A native of the Bohemian village of Policka, Martinu was born and raised in the tower of St. James Church, where his father worked as a bell-ringer and watchman. He took violin lessons as a child and in 1906 the people of Policka raised funds to send him to the Prague...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Saint Michael's Cemetery, Policka, Pardubicky, Czech Republic
Masaryk, Jan b. September 14, 1886 d. March 10, 1948
Czech politician. As foreign minister in the post World War II Czechoslovak government, Masaryk embraced the Marshall Plan and publicly announced Czechoslovakia's desire to participate. Stalin, however, called for meetings ( and told Masaryk that Czechoslovakia must refuse to participate. Masaryk said, "I left for Moscow as the minister of foreign affairs of a sovereign state. I am returning as Stalin's stooge." After the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia (February 25, 1948), Masaryk...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Lany City Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Masaryk, Tomas Garigue b. March 7, 1850 d. September 14, 1937
First president of Czechoslovakia. Tomas Masaryk was born in Hodonin, Moravia in 1850. The son of a coachman, Masaryk was educated at Vienna and Leipzig and in 1882 became Professor of Philosophy at the Czech University in Prague. Masaryk, a member of the Vienna Parliament in 1891-93 and 1907-14, advocated the reconciliation of all western and southern Slav groups (Czechs, Slovaks, Croats and Serbs). After calling for nation states to replace multinational anachronism of Austria-Hungary he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Frantisek Zboray)
Lany City Cemetery, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Maskova, Hana b. September 26, 1949 d. March 31, 1972
Olympic Figure Skater. She won the Bronze Medal in Figure Skating at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France. (Bio by: K)
Cause of death: Auto accident
Vysehradsky Hrbitov, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Memorial, Bohemian Rebellion Martyrs
Memorial Site. Inlaid among the cobblestones of Prague's Old Town Square are a pair of crossed swords wreathed with a crown of thorns, 27 individual crosses, and a dark date in Czech history. The mosaics mark the execution site of 27 Protestant leaders on June 21, 1621, for their role in the failed Bohemian Rebellion (also known as the Estates Rebellion, 1618 to 1620), against the ruling pro-Catholic Habsburg Monarchy. This was the first phase of what became the Thirty Years' War. Among...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Old Town Square, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Plot: At the east side of Old Town Hall
Mendel, Gregor Johann b. 1822 d. 1884
Geneticist. Austrian monk and biologist born in Heizendorf, Austria (now Hynçice ion the Czech Republic), he is considered to be the father of genetics. His groundbreaking work in the theories of heredity used simple pea pod plants (28,000 of them) with which he studied seven basic characteristics. Tracing these he discovered three basic laws that govern the passage of a trait from one member of a species to another member of the same species. His first law states that the sex cells of a plant...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Central Cemetery, Brno, Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic
Mikulas d. 1258
Bishop of Prague (Bio by: David Conway)
Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Monte, Philippe de b. 1521 d. July 4, 1603
Composer. He was the first important creator of madrigals (consort songs) outside of Italy, and helped spread the popularity of that genre throughout Europe. Monte was born in Mechelen, Flanders (now part of Antwerp, Belgium), and trained as a choirboy at the city's St. Rumbolds Cathedral. Like many Franco-Flemish musicians of the day he launched his career in Italy, holding various posts in Naples (where he knew Orlande de Lassus) and Rome. The first of his 34 books of madrigals was...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Saint James Church, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic
Monument to the Czech Resistance
The Czech people have had several instances of heroic resistance against invaders. This monument honors Free Czech agents who were trained in England, then parachuted into Czechoslovakia in 1942, to assassinate Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich (q.v.). They accomplished their mission, but were trapped in the crypt of the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague. Here they were surrounded by the Nazis, who tried to force them out by gunfire and water hoses. As the water rose around them, they...[Read More] (Bio by: Geoff Walden)
Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Prague, Prague Capital City, Czech Republic

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