Vojtěch ( Czech pronunciation: ) or Vojtech is a, respectively, Czech and Slovak given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of two parts: ''voj'' – "troops"/"war(rior)" and ''těch'' – "consolator"/"rejoicing man". So, the name could be interpreted either as "consolator of troops" or "man rejoicing in a battle, warlike man". The name day is 23 April. The name Vojtěch is since the Early Middle Ages also perceived as the equivalent of Germanic name

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("noble bright"), due to the saint Adalbert of Prague ( cs, svatý Vojtěch; pl, święty Wojciech), however, the two names have no linguistic relationship with each other. Via the same artificial process have been the names Vojtěch/Adalbert assigned to Hungarian name

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(like "noble").

Use in Czech

The proper Czech spelling of the name is 'Vojtěch', pronounced . The name contains two Czech orthography elements. The first is the caron, which is a form of a

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, over the letter 'e'. The caron modifies the pronunciation of the letter 't' immediately preceding the ě. The second is a digraph at the end of the name: the last two letters 'ch' in fact form a single phoneme (pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative ). (The pair 'ch' is the only formal digraph in the

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.) A common shorter version of the name is Vojta, pronounced . According to a 2009 survey of the Czech Ministry of Interior, there were over 41 thousand men with the first name Vojtěch in the Czech Republic, which made it the 28th most used name on Czech territory.Statistical records of the Ministry of Interior

Use in Slovak

The name is spelled without the caron above the letter e.

Foreign variants

* Polish: '' Wojciech'', ''Wojtas'', ''Wojtasek'', ''Wojtak'', ''Wojtek'', ''Wojtczak'', ''Wojcik'', ''Wojcicki'', ''Wojt'', ''Wojteczek'', ''Wojtuś''. * Serbian: ''Vojteh'' * Croatian: ''Vojtjeh'' * Bulgarian: ''Vojtech'' * German: ''Woitke'', ''Witke'', ''Voitke'', ''Voytke'', ''Woytke'', ''Vogtke'', ''Wogtke'', ''Woetke'', ''Wötke'', ''Wotke'', ''Woyzeck'', ''Wozzeck'' * American: ''Watke''

Given name

* Saint Adalbert of Prague (~956–997),

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, the first recorded user of this name * Vojtěch Adam (born 1950), Czech politician * Vojtech Alexander (1857–1916), Slovak radiologist *

Vojta Beneš Vojta Beneš (11 May 1878 – 20 November 1951) was a Czech educator, political leader in Czechoslovakia and brother of Edvard Beneš. Life and career Vojta Beneš was born in Kožlany, Bohemia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ben ...

(1878–1951), Czechoslovak educator, political leader and brother of Edvard Beneš *

Vojtěch Dobiáš Vojtěch Dobiáš (born July 18, 2000) is a Czech professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing for HC ZUBR Přerov of the Chance Liga on loan from PSG Berani Zlín. Dobias has been a member of Berani Zlín since 2014 where he featur ...

(born 2000), Czech ice hockey player * Vojtěch Filip (born 1955), Czech politician *

Alberto Vojtěch Frič Alberto Vojtěch Frič (, 8 September 1882 Prague – 4 December 1944 Prague) was a famous Czech botanist, ethnographer, writer and explorer. He undertook 8 voyages to America, discovered, described and catalogued many species of cactus. South ...

(1882–1944), Czech botanist and ethnographer *

Vojtěch Jarník Vojtěch Jarník (; 1897–1970) was a Czech mathematician who worked for many years as a professor and administrator at Charles University, and helped found the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He is the namesake of Jarník's algorithm for m ...

(1897–1970), Czech mathematician * Vojtěch Jasný (born 1925), Czech director * Vojtěch Kubašta (1914-1992), Czech artist and illustrator * Vojtěch Machek (born 1990), Czech footballer * Vojtech Milošovič (born 1992), Czech footballer *

Vojtěch Náprstek Vojtěch Náprstek (often called Vojta) (17 April 1826, in Prague – 2 September 1894), was a Czech philanthropist, patriot and politician, as well as a pioneering Czech language journalist in the United States. Background Vojtěch Náprste ...

(1826–1894), Czech journalist * Vojtech Plat (born 1994), Czech chess grandmaster *

Vojtěch Preissig Vojtěch Preissig (31 July 1873 – 11 June 1944) was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher. He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art (in Friedrich Ohmann's Decorative Architecture wo ...

(1873–1944), Czech type designer *

Vojtěch Šafařík Vojtěch Šafařík (26 October 1829 in Újvidék, Bács-Bodrog County, Vojvodina, Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary (today Serbia) – 2 July 1902 in Prague, Bohemia) was a Czech chemist, specialising in inorganic chemistry. Šafařík was ...

(1829–1902), Czech chemist *

Vojtech Tuka Vojtech Lázar "Béla" Tuka (4 July 1880 – 20 August 1946) was a Slovak politician who served as prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs of the First Slovak Republic between 1939 and 1945. Tuka was one of the main forces behind the depor ...

(1880–1946), Slovak prime minister * Vojtech Zamarovský (1919–2006), Slovak writer * Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (1763–1850) Bohemian composer.

Surname

* Adam Vojtěch, Czech singer and minister of health * Adolf Vojta-Jurný, Czech actor * Alexandr Vojta, Czech director of documents * Billy Vojtek (born 1943), Australian soccer player * Elmer Voight (born Elemír Vojtko), American golfer of Slovak origin and father of actor Jon Voight * Hermína Vojtová, Czech actress * Ivan Vojtek, Slovak actor * Jaroslav Vojta (1888–1970), Czech actor * Jaroslav Vojtek, Slovak director * Jiří Vojta, Czech actor * Josef Vojtek, Czech musician * Josef Vojtech (born 1925), Austrian weightlifter * Linda Vojtová (born 1985), Czech model * Martin Vojtek (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player * Roman Vojtek, Czech actor * Václav Vojta (1917–2000), Czech physician (inventor of the reflex locomotion, Vojta method)

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