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Čapek
Čapek (feminine Čapková; , ) is a Czech surname a diminutive of Čáp, literally meaning "little stork". It originated as a nickname of a son whose father had surname or nickname Čáp. Notable people with the surname include: * František Čapek (1914–2008), Czechoslovak canoeist * Jan Čapek of Sány (died after 1445), Czech commander of the Hussites * Josef Čapek (1887–1945), Czech painter and writer * Josef Čapek (footballer) (1902–1983), Czech footballer * Karel Čapek (1890–1938), Czech journalist, writer and playwright * Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod (1860–1927), Czech writer * Milič Čapek (1909–1997), Czech-American philosopher * Norbert Čapek (1870–1942) founder of the Unitarian Church in what became Czechoslovakia * Tereza Čapková (born 1987), Czech athlete * John Capek, Czech-Australian songwriter * Irene Capek (1924–2006), Czech Holocaust survivor and MBE recipient See also * * 1931 Čapek * Brothers Čapek * Czapek (other), Czapek, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal Robots'', 1920), which introduced the word ''robot''.Oxford English Dictionary: robot n2 He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism, he campaigned in favor of free expression and strongly opposed the rise of both fascism and communism in Europe. Though nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times, Čapek never received it. However, several awards commemorate his name, such as the Karel Čapek Prize, awarded every other year by the Czech PEN Club for literary work that contributes to reinforcing or maintaining democratic and humanist values in society. He also played a key role in establishing the Czechoslovak PEN Club as a part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek (; 23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word "robot", which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek. Life Čapek was born in Hronov, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary, later Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) in 1887. First a painter of the Cubist school, he later developed his own playful, minimalist style. He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories; on his own, he wrote the utopian play ''Land of Many Names'' and several novels, as well as critical essays in which he argued for the art of the unconscious, of children, and of 'savages'. He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term ''robot''. As a cartoonist, he worked for ''Lidové noviny,'' a newspaper based in Prague. His illustrated stories ''Povídání o Pejskovi a Kočičce'' (English translation as ''The Adventures of Puss and Pup'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milič Čapek
Milič Čapek, (26 January 1909 – 17 November 1997) was a Czech Republic, Czech–United States, American philosopher. Čapek was strongly influenced by the process philosophy of Henri Bergson and to a lesser degree by Alfred North Whitehead. Much of his work was devoted to the relation of philosophy and modern physics, especially the philosophy of space and time and metaphysics. Life Čapek was born in the municipality of Třebechovice pod Orebem, Třebechovice in present-day Czech Republic (then part of Austria-Hungary). He was married to Stephanie Čapek (born Štěpánka Řežábková), who was a school teacher in Czechoslovakia and later a housewife, and died on July 14, 1998 (aged 82), in Little Rock, Arkansas. Together they have a daughter, Dr. Stella M. Čapek from Conway, Arkansas. In 1935 Čapek received his Ph.D. in philosophy at Charles University in Prague. Following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, German occupation, he escaped from Czechoslovakia and stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Čapek
1931 Čapek, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 August 1969, by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg, Germany. The asteroid was named in memory of Czech writer Karel Čapek. Orbit and classification ''Čapek'' is a background asteroid, not associated to any known asteroid family. It orbits the Sun in the inner part of the Kirkwood gap, central main-belt near the 3:1 Orbital resonance, resonance with Jupiter at a distance of 1.9–3.2 Astronomical unit, AU once every 4 years and 1 month (1,480 days). Its orbit has an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity of 0.27 and an orbital inclination, inclination of 8Degree (angle), ° with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid was first identified as at Goethe Link Observatory in October 1957. The body's observation arc begins at Crimea–Nauchnij, eleven days prior to its of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Čapek
Norbert Fabián Čapek (Czech pronunciation: tʃapɛk 3 June 1870 – 30 October 1942) was the founder of the modern Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia. Early life Čapek was born into a Roman Catholic family on 3 June 1870 in Radomyšl, a market town in southern Bohemia. As a boy, he wanted to join the priesthood but soon became disillusioned with the church. At 18, he left Catholicism, became a Baptist, and was ordained a minister. Čapek traveled widely as a Baptist evangelist, from Saxony in the west to Ukraine in the east. In Moravia, he was influenced by free Christianity and the Moravian Church, and his religious convictions became progressively more liberal and anti-clerical. He wrote for and edited a number of journals. His articles on topics ranging from psychology to politics attracted unfavorable attention from the German authorities, and in 1914, he and his wife, Marie, and their eight children fled to the United States. Unitarianism In the United States, Norber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothers Čapek
The Brothers Čapek were Josef and Karel Čapek, Czech writers who sometimes wrote together. They are commemorated both for their literary/artistic works and political activism against oppressive government. Their house is now a cultural monument of the Czech Republic, and there are various memorials to them. Their most famous joint work is the play '' Pictures from the Insects' Life'', a humorous political allegory. Books *''Vibrant Depths'' (Zářivé hlubiny) 1916 – Collection of short stories, also illustrated by Josef. The title story refers to a supposedly unsinkable ship, the Oceanik. *''Giant Garden'' (Krakonošova zahrada) 1918 – Mixture of stories and essays, the title referring to countryside where they grew up. *''Nine Fairy Tales and another by Josef Čapek as an afterthought'' (Devatero pohádek) 1932 – Lessons from life for children. Plays *''The Highwayman'' (Loupežník) 1920 *'' Pictures from the Insects' Life'' (Ze života hmyzu) 1921 *''Adam the Creato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Čapek (footballer)
Josef Čapek (1 August 1902 – 5 May 1983) was a Czech footballer who played for SK Slavia Prague, SK Kladno and the Czechoslovak national team. Career Born in Prague in 1902, he begin playing with Viktoria Žižkov in 1914 but in 1915 he joined the youth team of Slavia Prague. In 1920 Čapek had a short spell in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia playing with FK Vojvodina, a club with traditional connection with Slavia Prague. He returned to Slavia and stayed until 1928, winning the first edition of the Czechoslovak First League with them in 1925.1925 season at Slavia Prague official website. In 1927 he moved to another Czechoslovak First League club, , where he played until 1931. He later coached |
Jan Čapek Of Sány
Jan Čapek of Sány (; 1390, Sány – 1452, probably in Hukvaldy) was a Czech Hussite noble, general of Władysław III of Poland. Biography He fought as a cavalry commander at the Battle of Lipany in 1434, and has been condemned for fleeing the field. Čapek was first mentioned in Hungarian sources as a leader of Władysław’s Hungarian-Polish army, which around 15 June 1440 occupied Győr, a territory belonged to Elizabeth of Luxemburg and her son, Ladislaus the Posthumous. He might be the leader of the army when Władysław crossed the borders of Hungary for the crowning ceremony, as he was the elected king of Hungary at this time. He took part at the war against Ottomans in 1443, but he was not mentioned as a participant of the Battle of Varna, where the king died. He returned to Moravia, where he owned the castle of Hukvaldy. He probably died in 1452. A record from 1453 states that Jan Čapek's widow sold the Hukvaldy estate to her son-in-law Jan Talafús. Sources [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod (; 21 February 1860 – 3 November 1927) was a Czech naturalist writer and a journalist. Biography In 1879, he graduated at the gymnasium in Domažlice. He was a long-term cooperator of the ''Národní listy'' journal, and after Karel Čapek began to work in the editorial office (in 1918), Čapek accepted the nickname "Chod". Work * Povidky, 1892 * V třetím dvoře, novel 1895 * Nedělni povídky, 1897 * Osmero, novel : 1900-1903 * Patero novel 1900-1903 * Kašpar Lén mstitel, novel, 1908 * Z města i obvodu, Novels, 1913 * Antonín Vondrejc. novel, 1915 * Turbína, novel, 1916 * Ad hoc! novelle, 1919 * Nejzapadnejsi Slovan (The westernmost Slav), 1921 * Jindrové, novel, 1921 * Větrník : autoanalytic-synthetic novel, 1923 * Vilém Rozkoč, novel, 1923 * Humoreska, 1924 * Labyrint světa, 1926 * Řešany, novel, 1927 * An der Rotationsmaschine, novelle, 1928 * Spisy, 1938–41 See also * List of Czech writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Čapek
František Čapek (24 October 1914 – 31 January 2008) was a Czechoslovakian canoe racing, sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Born in Branice, Písek District, he also won a silver medal at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon in the C-1 10000 m event. ReferencesDatabaseOlympics.com profile * * * 1914 births 2008 deaths Canoeists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Czech male canoeists Czechoslovak male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Czechoslovakia Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian {{Czechoslovakia-Olympic-medalist-stub Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Surname
Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves upon baptism but they generally use one. With marriage, the bride typically adopts the bridegroom's surname. Given names In the Czech Republic, names are simply known as ("names") or, if the context requires it, ' ("baptismal names"). The singular form is '. A native Czech given name may have Christian roots or traditional Slavic pre-Christian origin (e.g. Milena, Božena, Jaroslav, Václav, Vojtěch). It used to be a legal obligation for parents to choose their child's name from a list that was pre-approved by the government. Special permission was necessary for other names with exceptions for minorities and foreigners. Since the Velvet revolution in 1989, parents have had the right to give their child any name they wish, provided it is used somewhere in the world and is not insulting or demeaning. However, in recent yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czapek (other) , a surname
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Czapek may refer to: People * Elisabeth Czapek (1860–1949), Swedish miniature painter * Franciszek Czapek (1811–1895), Polish watchmaker, founder of Czapek & Cie * Friedrich Czapek (1868–1921), Czech botanist who developed Czapek medium * Leopold Eustachius Czapek (1792–1840), Czech-Austrian pianist and composer Other uses * Czapek & Cie, a watch company * Czapek medium, a medium for growing fungi in a lab See also * * Čapek Čapek (feminine Čapková; , ) is a Czech surname a diminutive of Čáp, literally meaning "little stork". It originated as a nickname of a son whose father had surname or nickname Čáp. Notable people with the surname include: * František Ča ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
