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Otakar Berger
Otakar is a masculine Czech given name of Germanic origin (cf. Audovacar). Notable people with the name include: * Otakar Batlička (1895–1942), Czech adventurer, journalist, ham radio operator, member of Czech Nazi resistance group in World War II *Otakar Borůvka (1899–1995), Czech mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory *Otakar Bystřina (1861–1931), pen name for a Czech writer who was a subject of Austria for much of his life *Otakar Hemele (1926–2001), Czech football player, who was a devoted player of Slavia Prague *Otakar Hollmann (1894–1967), Czech pianist who was notable in the repertoire for left-handed pianists *Otakar Hořínek (1929–2015), Czech sport shooter *Otakar Hostinský (1847–1910), Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics *Otakar Janecký (born 1960), retired Czech ice hockey forward *Otakar Jaroš (1912–1943), Czech officer in the Czechoslovak forces in the Soviet Union * Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audovacar
Audovacar (from Proto-Germanic *''Audawakraz'') is a masculine Germanic name. Composed of the roots (wealth) and (awake), it may be translated "warden of riches" or "watchman of property" and is a kenning for lord. The name is attested in many variations. The first root may appear as , , , , or and is attested as a name on its own, Aud, in the 3rd century AD. The name Otto is a derivative. The medieval German form was Ottokar, whence the Czech form Otakar. The Czech name Žiroslav (Polish ''Żyrosław'') has the same meaning. The Greek name Plutarch also means "lord of wealth". __NOTOC__ Attested forms These forms are mentioned in . *Audacar *Audacrus *Audaccrus *Audgarius *Audagarius *Autcharius *Aotackar *Odowakar *Odakar *Odacrus *Otachar *Otacar *Otacarus * Otakar *Otgarius * Otgar * Otger *Othgar *Otkger Famous people * Adovacrius (5th century), Saxon leader in Gaul *Odoacer (d. 493), barbarian king of Italy * Autchar (8th century), Frankish diplomat *Eadwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Motejl
Otakar Motejl (10 September 1932; Prague – 9 May 2010; Brno) was a Czech lawyer and politician. He served as the first ombudsman of the Czech Republic from 2000 until his death in 2010. In 1998–2000 he served as the Minister of Justice. Life Motejl graduated from the Law Faculty of the Charles University of Prague in 1955, and then worked as a lawyer in Banská Bystrica, Kladno, and Prague. Between 1966 and 1968, he worked at the Law Institute of the Ministry of Justice, then became a judge of the Supreme Court in 1968. On 18 December 2000, he was selected as ombudsman. In 2006, Motejl was elected into the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic for six years. He participated in the 2003 Czech presidential election when he sought the Social Democratic nomination. According to poll by STEM, he was the front-runner in the primaries but was defeated by Miloš Zeman Miloš Zeman (; born 28 September 1944) is a Czech politician serving as the third and current President of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottokar
Ottokar is the medieval German form of the Germanic name Audovacar. People with the name Ottokar include: *Two kings of Bohemia, members of the Přemyslid dynasty ** Ottokar I of Bohemia (–1230) ** Ottokar II of Bohemia (–1278) *Four Styrian margraves, members of the Otakar dynasty ** Ottokar I of Styria (died 1075) ** Ottokar II of Styria (died 1122) ** Ottokar III of Styria (died 1164) ** Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria (1163–1192) * Ottokar Chiari (1853–1918), Austrian laryngologist * Ottokar Czernin (1872–1932), Austro-Hungarian diplomat * Ottokar Domma (1924–2007), German journalist and writer * Ottokar Fischer (1873–1940), Austrian magician * Ottokar Lorenz (1832–1904), Austrian-German historian and genealogist * Ottokar Nováček (1866–1900), Austro-Hungarian violinist * Ottokár Prohászka (1858–1927), Hungarian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop * Ottokar Runze (born 1925), German film producer * Ottokar Tumlirz (1856–1928), Austrian physicis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Zich
Otakar Zich (25 March 1879, Městec Králové – 9 July 1934 Ouběnice u Benešova) was a distinguished Czech composer and aesthetician. Biography In his music education he studied as a self-taught man. Years later, he became a pupil of the prominent nineteenth-century Czech aesthetician Otakar Hostinský, and a protégé of the iconoclastic musicologist and critic Zdeněk Nejedlý. In the years 1903–1906 he taught physics and mathematics at the High School in Domažlice. In the years leading up to the First World War Zich lived in Prague, actively participating in musical life as a critic. In this capacity he supported the efforts of Nejedlý's pro- Smetana faction against the intellectual descendants of Antonín Dvořák, especially during the so-called ''Dvořák Affair'' of 1911–1914, when he called into question the artistic integrity of Dvořák's compositional language. These activities firmly allied Zich with Nejedlý's academic circle at Charles University, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Vindyš
Otakar "Otto, Vend" Vindyš (9 April 1889 – 23 December 1949) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Vindyš was a native of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Career In 1911, Vindyš won the European Championship with Bohemia. He was a member of the Czechoslovak national team which won the bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... Four years later he also participated in the first Winter Olympic ice hockey tournament. References External links * profile 1889 births 1949 deaths Czech ice hockey right wingers Czechoslovak ice hockey right wingers HC Slavia Praha players Ice hockey people from Prague Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Vávra
Otakar Vávra (28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was born in Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic. Biography and career Vávra attended universities in Brno and Prague, where he studied architecture. During 1929–30, while still a student, he participated in the making of a handful of documentaries and wrote movie scripts. In 1931, he produced the experimental film ''Světlo proniká tmou''. The first movie he directed was 1937's '' Panenství''. His 1938 film ''The Merry Wives'' was praised in Variety for "first-rate direction, a salty yarn and elaborate production effort", even though it had undergone certain cuts because it was considered too "ribald" by American censors. Vávra was a member of the Communist Party from 1945 to 1989. After the Communists seized power in 1948, Vávra adapted quickly to the new political climate and produced films praising the current regime and su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Švorčík
Otakar Švorčík (7 December 1886 – 18 September 1955) was a Czech fencer. He competed at three Olympic Games. References External links * 1886 births 1955 deaths Czech male fencers Czechoslovak male fencers Olympic fencers of Bohemia Olympic fencers of Czechoslovakia Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Prague {{CzechRepublic-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Švec
Otakar Švec (23 November 1892, Prague-New Town – 3 March 1955, Prague) was a Czechoslovak sculptor best known for his colossal granite Monument to Stalin in Prague. Career A pupil of Josef Václav Myslbek and Jan Štursa, Švec had produced the important 1924 Futurist sculpture ''Sunbeam Motorcycle'', now in the National Gallery in Prague, and at least three major public monuments to Tomáš Masaryk, Jan Hus, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first two were destroyed by the Germans during World War II. Švec entered the competition for the Stalin Monument in 1949, not expecting to win. The sculpture was unveiled on May Day, 1955. Švec, horrified by his own creation, had killed himself days before it was officially unveiled. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Ševčík
Otakar Ševčík (22 March 185218 January 1934) was a Czech violinist and influential teacher. He was known as a soloist and an ensemble player, including his occasional performances with Eugène Ysaÿe. Biography Ševčík was born in Horažďovice, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. His father was the local village schoolmaster. Although he received his first music lessons from his father, he studied under Antonín Bennewitz at the Prague Conservatory (1866–1870) during which period a disease caused him to have his left eye enucleated. He was also taught by Hans Sitt. He began his career in 1870 as concertmaster of the Mozarteum concerts in Salzburg, where he also taught. After 1873, he was concertmaster at the Prague Interim (Provisional) Theatre and the Komische Opera at the Ring Theatre in Vienna. From 1875-92 he was professor of violin at the music school of the Russian Music Society in Kiev, at the same time appearing frequently as soloist. In 1892 he became head of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Sedloň
Otakar Sedloň (1885–1973) was a Czech realistic painter living in Prague. Otakar Sedloň was born on 30 August 1885 in Trpín in eastern Bohemia, formerly part of Austria-Hungary. Otakar attended primary school in Vamberk and followed on with a high school education in Kostelec nad Orlicí, where he graduated in 1904. Then he started studying on Academy of Art in Prague, where graduated in 1908. In the mid-1920s, he traveled quite a bit, visiting places like the coast along the Adriatic Sea, Paris, Carpathian Ruthenia and Romania. This travel offered him great inspiration for his future activities as an artist. He eventually became a member of the association of artists called Myslbek and was a frequent participant in exhibitions arranged by this association. During this time, Otakar had his studio on the prestigious Narodni trida in Prague and was known as an excellent portrait painter. His paintings were displayed in the offices of ministries, banks and held by private colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Pertold
Otakar Pertold (born in Jaroměř 21 March 1884, died 3 May 1965 in Prague) was Czech Indologist, religious studies historian and ethnologist, generally considered the pioneer of Asian religious studies in Czechoslovakia. From 1934, he was Professor of Religious Studies at Charles University ) , image_name = Carolinum_Logo.svg , image_size = 200px , established = , type = Public, Ancient , budget = 8.9 billion CZK , rector = Milena Králíčková , faculty = 4,057 , administrative_staff = 4,026 , students = 51,438 , undergr .... A member of many learned bodies, he was a prolific author and among English readers is best known for his work on Sri Lanka.O. Pertold, "A Protective Ritual of the Southern Buddhists," ''Anthropological Society of Bombay'' 12.6 (1923), pp. 744-89. References External links Biography (in Czech) 1884 births 1965 deaths Czech Indologists {{CzechRepublic-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otakar Ostrčil
Otakar Ostrčil (25 February 1879 in Prague – 20 August 1935 in Prague) was a Czech composer and conductor. He is noted for symphonic works ''Impromptu'', ''Suite in C Minor'', and ''Symfonietta'', and in his opera compositions '' Poupě'' and '' Honzovo království''. Compositional career Ostrčil was born, and spent his entire life, in Prague, the center of the Czech musical community of his generation. He studied philosophy at Charles University, attending the classes of Otakar Hostinský, and simultaneously studied composition and music theory privately under Zdeněk Fibich. From his early student days he was a close friend of Zdeněk Nejedlý, whose outspoken voice in musicology formed Ostrčil's greatest critical support. He worked as a conductor at the Vinohrady Theater (1914-1919) and later at the National Theatre (Prague) (1920-1935), which was one of the most influential positions in Czech musical life. He also worked as a pedagogue at the Prague Conservatory, tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
