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Hořice (Jičín District)
Hořice (, also known as Hořice v Podkrkonoší; german: Horschitz) is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,600 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Březovice, Chlum, Chvalina, Doubrava, Libonice and Svatogothardská Lhota are administrative parts of Hořice. Geography Hořice is located about northwest of Hradec Králové. It lies on the border between the hilly landscape of the Jičín Uplands in the north, and the flat landscape of the Central Elbe Table in the south. The highest point is at above sea level. History The first written mention of Hořice is from 1143 in the foundation deed of the Strahov Monastery. It was founded on a hill later named Gothard, which was named after the Church of Saint Gotthard founded here in the 12th century. In the 13th century, the settlement was moved to strategically more advantageous place below the hill. In 1365, it was first documented as a market town. In 1423, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obec
Obec (plural: ''obce'') is the Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak word for a municipality (in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia and abroad). The literal meaning of the word is "Intentional community, commune" or "community". It is the smallest administrative unit that is governed by elected representatives. Cities and towns are also municipalities. Definition Legal definition (according to the Czech code of law with similar definition in the Slovak code of law) is: ''"The municipality is a basic territorial self-governing community of citizens; it forms a territorial unit, which is defined by the boundary of the municipality."'' Every municipality is composed of one or more cadastre, cadastral areas. Every municipality is composed of one or more administrative parts, usually called town parts or villages. A municipality can have its own flag and coat of arms. Czech Republic Almost whole area of the republic is divided into municipalities, with the only exception be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hussite Wars
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, European monarchs loyal to the Catholic Church, as well as various Hussite factions. At a late stage of the conflict, the Utraquists changed sides in 1432 to fight alongside Roman Catholics and opposed the Taborites and other Hussite spinoffs. These wars lasted from 1419 to approximately 1434. The unrest began after pre-Protestant Christian reformer Jan Hus was executed by the Catholic Church in 1415 for heresy. Because the King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia had plans to be crowned the Holy Roman Emperor (requiring Papal Coronation), he suppressed the religion of the Hussites, yet it continued to spread. When King Wenceslaus IV died of natural causes a few years later, the tension stemming from the Hussites grew stronger. In Prague and various other parts of Bohemia, the Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Fišer
Stanislav Fišer (14 December 1931 – 11 June 2022) was a Czech theatre and film actor and dubber. Life Fišer was born in Hořice. He started as an amateur actor, after World War II. He first played in the Theatre for Youth, run by Míla Mellanová. He then went on to work at the Vinohrady Theatre, the Jiří Wolker Theatre and the E. F. Burian Theatre. From 1959 he worked for Jan Werich at the ABC Theatre, which was later incorporated into the Prague City Theatres, where he remained under the direction of Ota Ornest until his retirement in 1993. He played his first episodic roles in the famous Czech films ''The Stone Table Inn'' (1948) and ''Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky'' (Family troubles of Mr.Tříška, a clerk, 1949). From the second half of the 1950s until the 1990s, he was one of the most widely cast film and television actors. He often played episodic comic or negative roles. In 1999, he received the František Filipovský Award for lifetime achievement in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Matoušek (historian)
Josef Matoušek (13 January 1906 – 17 November 1939) was a Czechoslovak historian. He was one of nine people executed by the Nazis for participating in the funeral of the student Jan Opletal. Biography Matoušek was born on 13 January 1906 in Hořice. He studied under Josef Šusta. His research focused on two periods: the Reformation and early Counter-Reformation, and modern history. He wrote a book, ''The Turkish War in European Politics in the Years 1592–94''. He also published on Karel Sladkovksý, a 19th-century Czech politician. In 1939, he was a docent in history at Charles University in Prague.O. Odložilík (1939–1940). Jan Máchal, Arne Novák, Josef Matoušek. ''The Slavonic Year-Book'' 19 (53/54): 311–315 He was active on the administrative Committee in occupied Czechoslovakia. In November 1939 he participated in preparations for the funeral of Jan Opletal, a medical student who died after being injured at a demonstration the previous month.Victor-L. Tapié (1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Kirpal
Irene Kirpal (1 January 1886 – 17 December 1977) was a Czechoslovakian politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies, remaining in parliament until 1938. Biography Kirpal was born Irene Grundmann into a Jewish family in Hořice in Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic) in 1886. Between 1902 and her marriage in 1912, she worked in education. She joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria in 1912 and became chair of the women's section in Ústí nad Labem, Aussig (Ústí nad Labem) in 1915. Following the independence of Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ... at the end of World War I, Kirpal was a municipal councillor in Ústí nad Labem from 1918 to 1920. She joined the German Social Demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Vik
Karel Vik was a Czech artist, painter and printmaker. He was born on 4 November 1883 at Hořice, and died on 8 October 1964 at Turnov. His works are held by museums across Europe. References "Karel Vik was a Czech graphic artist , illustrator and painter . Between 1,902 - 1908 he studied landscape painting with Rudolf von Ottenfeld at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . Following the success of the graphic exhibition in Leipzig, he began creating graphics, a large part of his work consisted of woodcuts . In Prague, he co-founded Hollar . Soon he moved to Turnova , where he participated in the founding of Turnovské work (especially in conjunction with Karl Kinsky ). (..) Since 1941 he was a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts" Karel Vik was a Czech visual artist who was born in 1883. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'House by the Golden Well' sold at Dorotheum, Prague 'Fine Art - Prague' in 2015. The artist died in 1964.Mutualart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohumir Kryl
Bohumir Kryl (May 3, 1875 – August 7, 1961) was a Czech-American financial executive and art collector who is most famous as a cornetist, bandleader, and pioneer recording artist, for both his solo work and as a leader of popular and Bohemian bands. He was one of the major creative figures in the era of American music known as the "Golden Age of the Bands". Biography Bohumir Kryl (originally Bohumil Krill, also Bohumír Kryl) was born on May 3, 1875, at Hořice 230, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was baptized Catholic 7 days later. His first instrument was the violin, which he studied at age 10. While attending school in Hořice he was classmates with Jan Kubelík, with whom he maintained correspondence. He spent time performing both the violin and the cornet for a circus band in Prague. He also performed as an aerialist acrobat with the Rentz Circus in Germany, but an accident in 1886 ended this line of work. His father was a sculptor, and Bohumir also studied this art. He emig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Mauthner
Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was an Austrian novelist, theatre critic and satirist. He was an exponent of philosophical scepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge and of philosophy of language. Mauthner was born on 22 November 1849 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family from Horzitz in Bohemia (now Hořice in the Czech Republic). He was the fourth of the six children of Emmanuel and Amalie Mauthner. He became editor of the ''Berliner Tageblatt'' in 1895, but is remembered mainly for his ''Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache'' (''Contributions to a Critique of Language''), published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Ludwig Wittgenstein took several of his ideas from Mauthner, and acknowledges him in his ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' (1922).Wittgenstein L., ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'', "4.0031 All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense)." Mauthner died in Meersburg am Bodensee on 29 June 1923. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iacob Felix
Iacob Dimitrie Felix (January 6, 1832–January 19, 1905) was an Austrian Empire, Imperial Austrian-born Romanian physician and hygienist. Biography Born in Hořice (Jičín District), Horschitz (''Hořice''), in the Kingdom of Bohemia, he graduated from high school in Prague and enrolled in the medical faculty of Vienna University. There, he became a doctor in medicine and surgery, as well as a specialist in obstetrics.Ion Văduva-Poenaru, ''Enciclopedia marilor personalități'', p. 209. Bucharest: Editura Geneze, 2004. He came from a History of the Jews in the Czech Republic, Jewish family but converted to Christianity during his university days. During the subsequent decades he lived in Romania, he neither discussed his Jewish background nor adopted an attitude suggesting a rejection of Jewishness. After earning his degree, Felix emigrated to Wallachia, passing the practitioner's examination in August 1858. He worked as a doctor in Oltenița from 1858 to 1859 and in Musc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Žižka
Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha ( en, John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice; 1360 – 11 October 1424) was a Czech general – a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and a Radical Hussite who led the Taborites. Žižka was a successful military leader and is now a Czech national hero. He was nicknamed "One-eyed Žižka", having lost one and then both eyes. Jan Žižka led Hussite forces against three crusades and never lost a single battle despite being completely blind in his last stages of life. He was born in the small village of Trocnov in the Kingdom of Bohemia into a family from the Czech nobility. According to Piccolomini's ''Historia Bohemica'', he had some connections with the royal court from his youth, and later held the office of Chamberlain to Queen Sofia of Bavaria. He fought in the Battle of Grunwald (15 July 1410), where he defended Radzyń against the Teutonic Order. Later he played a prominent role in the civil wars in Bohemia. He led the Hussites during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer ( cs, Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer) (1 September 1689, Prague – 18 December 1751) was a Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph Dientzenhofer and the Bohemian-German Maria Anna Aichbauer (née Lang), widow of the architect Johann Georg Achbauer the Elder, and a member of the well known Dientzenhofer family of architects. As an architect he co-operated with his father and with Jan Santini Aichel. Among Dientzenhofer's Prague buildings are the churches of Saint John of Nepomuk and Saint Nicholas, as well as the Vila Amerika and the Kinský Palace. He also built numerous churches and secular buildings in other towns of Bohemia. Many of his later projects were realized by his pupil and son-in-law Anselmo Martino Lurago. Projects In Prague * Vila Amerika, Nové Město (1717–1720), nowadays Antonín Dvořák museum * Convent of Benedictine Monastery in Břevnov (about 1717) * St. John Nepomuk churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hořice - Galerie Kamenných Plastik
Hořice (, also known as Hořice v Podkrkonoší; german: Horschitz) is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,600 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Březovice, Chlum, Chvalina, Doubrava, Libonice and Svatogothardská Lhota are administrative parts of Hořice. Geography Hořice is located about northwest of Hradec Králové. It lies on the border between the hilly landscape of the Jičín Uplands in the north, and the flat landscape of the Central Elbe Table in the south. The highest point is at above sea level. History The first written mention of Hořice is from 1143 in the foundation deed of the Strahov Monastery. It was founded on a hill later named Gothard, which was named after the Church of Saint Gotthard founded here in the 12th century. In the 13th century, the settlement was moved to strategically more advantageous place below the hill. In 1365, it was first documented as a market town. In 1423 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
