Famous People with Name Vojtech

Vojtech Jarník            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Vojtech Jarník: was a Czech mathematician.His main area of work was in number theory and mathematical analysis; he proved a number of results on lattice point problems. He also discovered the graph theory algorithm known as Prim's algorithm.

Vojtech Šafarík            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Vojtech Šafarík: was a Czech chemist, specializing in inorganic chemistry. He wrote many popular textbooks as well as making over 20,000 observations of variable stars.

Vojtech Bradác            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Vojtech Bradác: was a Czech football player playing as a forward.He played for the Czechoslovakia national team (9 matches/5 goals) and was a participant at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

Vojtech Kubašta            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Vojtech Kubašta: was a Czech architect and artist.Vojtech Robert Vladimír Kubašta was born in Vienna. His family moved to Prague when he was four years old and he lived there his entire life. He demonstrated his artistic talent at the age of four. He had a great desire to become an artist. His father, however, had different goals for his son. He wanted him to study law.

Vojtech Jasný            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Vojtech Jasný: Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. Won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až prijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963).[1]An active and influential filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950's and 1960's, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968.Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early '80's. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA).