August Sedláček (28 August 1843 – 15 January 1926) was a

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and

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. Sedláček was born in

Mladá Vožice Mladá Vožice () is a town in Tábor District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,700 inhabitants. Administrative division Mladá Vožice consists of 15 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 ...

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. Notably, he worked in

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history, detailing the history of

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castles in the

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. He wrote among others extensively on autonomous region of Prachens in the southwest of Bohemia in 1926 (Děje Prachenského Kraje,

Písek Písek (; ) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 31,000 inhabitants. The town is known for the oldest bridge in the country. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument z ...

Bibliography

*''Hrady, zámky a tvrze království českého'', 15 vols., 1882–1927.

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1843 births 1926 deaths People from Mladá Vožice Historians from Austria-Hungary Czech archivists Czech genealogists 19th-century Czech historians 20th-century Czech historians {{CzechRepublic-historian-stub