Czech Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music

Was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music.He achieved the rank of master miller in 1761, but gave up the family profession in order to pursue musical studies. In Prague, he studied composition with Franz Habermann and Josef Seger in the early 1760s. His ambitions led him to travel to Venice in 1763 to study with Giovanni Pescetti. His travel to Italy was subsidized in part from family wealth, in part from the Bohemian nobleman Vincenz von Waldstein.

Was a renowned Bohemian painter. He worked for the Austrian Court and created a great number of pain

Was a renowned Bohemian painter. He worked for the Austrian Court and created a great number of paintings, murals, and frescos.

Is a boxer from Czechoslovakia.He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Me

Is a boxer from Czechoslovakia.He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, going out in the quarter finals of the heavyweight event. He returned to the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, again as a heavy

Was a Czechoslovakian cross country skier who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 W

Was a Czechoslovakian cross country skier who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.In 1924 he finished 17th in the 50 kilometre event at the Chamonix Olympics.Four years later he finished eleventh in the 50 kilometre competition at the St. Moritz Games.

Was one of the most important Czech architects in the 19th century.

Was one of the most important Czech architects in the 19th century.

Was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.

Was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.

Was a Bohemian Olympic fencer. He competed in four events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Was a Bohemian Olympic fencer. He competed in four events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Was a Czech pianist and composer.From 1840 to 1846 Pischna studied oboe at the Prague Conservatory.[

Was a Czech pianist and composer.From 1840 to 1846 Pischna studied oboe at the Prague Conservatory.[1] He worked for thirty-five years as a pianist and piano teacher in Moscow.[1] Of his compositions, the 60 Klavierübungen (60 Exercices progressifs - 60 Piano Exercises) have commanded an abiding importance. They have appeared in several editions and been used up to the present time in piano teaching.[1]

Is a Czech architect. He is known mainly as the designer of the pedestrian tunnel in the Deer Moat a

Is a Czech architect. He is known mainly as the designer of the pedestrian tunnel in the Deer Moat at the Prague Castle, and administrative building of the CSOB in Prague. In 2009, he was voted the most significant Czech architect of the 1989-2009 period.[1]

Was a Czech pianist and composer of German descent.Proksch, who became blind at the age of 17, was a

Was a Czech pianist and composer of German descent.Proksch, who became blind at the age of 17, was a pupil of Jan Antonín Koželuh.[1] In 1830, Proksch opened the Musikbildungsanstalt (Music Academy) in Prague.[1] His teaching method of having several students play simultaneously during piano lessons was continued for over a hundred years. His most famous student was Bedrich Smetana, whom Prosch taught piano and music theory from 1843 to 1847.[1]

Was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton R

Was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha.Josef Reicha was born in Chudenice. In 1761 he moved to Prague, where he was taught cello by Franz Joseph Werner. In 1771 Reicha became first cellist in the Kapelle of Prince (Fürst) Kraft Ernst von Oettingen-Wallerstein. Together with the famous violinist Anton Janitsch, who also played in the Kapelle, Reicha toured several European cities during late 1770s and visited Leopold Mozart in Salzburg in 1778.[1] In his letters to Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold praised Reicha's cello playing and compared the style of one of his cello concerts to those by Wolfgang Amadeus.

Was one of Czechoslovakia's strongest chess players before World War II.Rejfir represented Czechoslo

Was one of Czechoslovakia's strongest chess players before World War II.Rejfir represented Czechoslovakia at all five Chess Olympiads from 1928 to 1935. He retired from chess for many years, but returned in the last decade of his life to play in the 1956

Was a Czech–Bulgarian architect, engineer and geodesist credited with shaping the modern appearanc

Was a Czech–Bulgarian architect, engineer and geodesist credited with shaping the modern appearance of Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city.[2]Even before the Treaty of San Stefano was signed on 3 March 1878 and Bulgaria was liberated from Ottoman rule, Schnitter was dispatched to Plovdiv by the Russians.[3] He settled in the city, which was the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia until the Unification of Bulgaria in 1885, and, after a brief private practice, served as Plovdiv's head architect and municipal chief of engineering from 1878 until his death in 1914.[3]

Was a Bohemian composer and one of the most important representatives of the Czech organ school of 1

Was a Bohemian composer and one of the most important representatives of the Czech organ school of 18th century. He is known particularly as an influential teacher.Seger worked as a singer, organist and violinist for various Prague churches.[1] In 1741 he became the organist to the Church of Our Lady in front of Týn and in 1745 at the Church of the Knights of the Cross.[1] His most important pupils were Jan Koželuh and Josef Myslivecek.[1] In 1781, he applied for the post of court organist in Vienna, but died before taking up the job.

Was a Czech football player.He played for Czechoslovakia national team (50 matches and 28 goals), an

Was a Czech football player.He played for Czechoslovakia national team (50 matches and 28 goals), and was a participant at the 1934 FIFA World Cup, where he played in a match against Romania.

Is a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada. He an

Is a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. By turns humorous, wise, eloquent and humanistic, Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, the miracle of jazz.

Was a Czech figure skater who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 192

Was a Czech figure skater who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Winter Olympics and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Was a Czechoslovak politician and a member of the Communist Party reform wing during the 1968 Prague

Was a Czechoslovak politician and a member of the Communist Party reform wing during the 1968 Prague Spring.Although the Czech National Council was dissolved and its members unpopular with Soviet authorities, Smrkovský was co-opted into the presidium of t

Is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics, in the 1924 Winter Ol

Was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics, in the 1924 Winter Olympics, and in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Was an acclaimed[who?] Czech fishpond builder and architect.Netolický worked as a regent of the Rožmberks' domain and designed fishpond system around the town Trebon. The builder of this system was the other well-known regent of this domain, Jakub Krcín. Netolický was a founder of the Zlatá Stoka (Golden Canal), one of two canals for regulation of water system in the region of Trebon.

Was a Czech photographer, best known for his haunting night-scapes of Prague.Originally a bookbinder

Was a Czech photographer, best known for his haunting night-scapes of Prague.Originally a bookbinder, During The First World War he was drafted into Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1915 and served on the Italian Front until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation, he was given a camera. After the war he studied photography for two years in Prague under Jaromir Funke.

Was a Czech composer and violinist.

Was a Czech composer and violinist.

Was a Czech actor, writer, director and screenwriter.

Was a Czech actor, writer, director and screenwriter.