52 Notable alumni of
Palacky University, Olomouc
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Palacky University, Olomouc is 958th in the world, 338th in Europe, and 8th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from Palacky University, Olomouc sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gregor Mendel
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- beekeeperfriarbotanical collectorbotanistscientific collector
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Gregor Johann Mendel OSA was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
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Albrecht von Wallenstein
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- military officermilitary leaderpolitician
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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on the Catholic side as supreme commander of the armies of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. His successful martial career made him one of the richest and most influential men in the Holy Roman Empire by the time of his death. He is considered one of the most important military leaders produced by the early modern period.
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Theodor Gebre Selassie
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- association football player
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Theodor Gebre Selassie is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a right-back or as wing-back. He earned 54 caps and scored three goals with the Czech national team.
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Diogo Piçarra
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- singer
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Diogo Piçarra is a Portuguese singer. He rose to fame after winning the fifth season of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of Pop Idol in 2012.
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Albert Černý
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- singerguitarist
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Albert Černý is a Czech singer and guitarist. He is known as the former lead singer of Charlie Straight, currently with Lake Malawi.
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Antonín Holý
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- chemistbiochemistscientistorganic chemistvirologist
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Antonín Holý was a pioneering Czech scientist. He specialised in the field of chemistry and cooperated on the development of important antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV and hepatitis B. He was involved in the creation of the most effective drug (as of early 2009) in the treatment of AIDS. Antonín Holý is the author of more than 450 papers, 400 scientific discoveries and holds 60 patents. With more than 400 discoveries to his credit, his work has affected millions of people with viral diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and many other viral diseases. In 2008 he received an Honorary Professorship at the University of Manchester's School of Chemistry.
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Leona Machálková
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- singeractor
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Leona Machálková is a Czech singer. She had a starring role in the musical Monte Cristo, which premiered in 2000, and became the most expensive Czech musical. She went on to star in the 2003 version of the Czech musical Dracula. The launch of her 2005 album Voda Divoká was attended by former president Václav Havel.
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John Ogilvie
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- Catholic priest
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John Ogilvie, SJ was a Scottish Jesuit priest. For his work in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.
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František Tomášek
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- priestpedagogueuniversity teachertheologianwriter
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František Tomášek was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian. His "cautious but resolute opposition to the Czechoslovak communist regime helped to bring about its peaceful demise in the 1989 Velvet Revolution".
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Marek Výborný
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- teacherpolitician
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Marek Výborný is a Czech politician, who served as the Czech Minister of Agriculture in Cabinet of Petr Fiala from 2023 to 2025. He has been serving as the leader of KDU-ČSL since October 2024. He was also the leader of KDU-ČSL between 2019 and 2020. Výborný resigned on the post on 19 November 2019 after his wife died and he became a single parent for his three children. He left the position on 25 January 2020.
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John Sarkander
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- Catholic priestChristian minister
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Jan Sarkander was a Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest. Sarkander was married for a short period of time before he became widowed and pursued a path to the priesthood where he became active in defence of Catholicism during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment and conflict. He himself was arrested on false accusations as a means of silencing him and he refused to give in to his tormenters who tortured him for around a month before he died.
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Alois Musil
- Enrolled in Palacky University, Olomouc
- Studied in 1887-1891
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- priestpedagogueorientalistbiblical scholaruniversity teacher
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Alois Musil was a Moravian theologian, orientalist, explorer and bilingual Czech and German writer.
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Bohuslav Balbín
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- Christian ministerpriestpedagoguedramaturgeliterary theorist
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Bohuslav Balbín was a Czech writer, historian, geographer and Jesuit. He became well known also as an advocate of the Czech language in the time of incoming germanisation of the Czech lands. He was called the "Czech Pliny".
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Bohdan Pomahač
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- researcherplastic surgeon
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Bohdan Pomahač is a Czech plastic surgeon. He led the team that performed the first full face transplant in United States and the third overall in the world.
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Jan Šrámek
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- editing staffpriestCatholic priesttheologianopinion journalist
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Jan Šrámek was the prime minister of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile from 21 July 1940 to 5 April 1945. He was the first chairman of the Czechoslovak People's Party and was a Monsignor in the Catholic church.
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Ivan Langer
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- ministerpoliticianjuristcouncil memberphysician
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Ivan Langer is a former Czech politician. He has been a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 1991. From 1996 to 2010 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (in 1996-2006 a vice-chairman), serving as Minister of Informatics and Minister of the Interior.
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Paul Wranitzky
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- composerbandleaderconductorviolinist
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Paul Wranitzky was a Moravian classical composer. His half brother, Antonín, was also a composer.
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Jan Marek Marci
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- university teacherphysicistmathematicianpedagoguephysician
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Jan Marek Marci FRS, also known as Johannes Marcus Marci was a Czech physician and scientist. He was the rector of the University of Prague and official physician to the Holy Roman Emperors. The crater Marci on the far side of the Moon is named after him.
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Tomáš Hudeček
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- teacherpoliticiangeographercartographerpedagogue
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Tomáš Hudeček is a Czech university (assoc.) professor and former politician. He is currently the head of the Department of Public Administration and Regional Studies at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of the Czech Technical University in Prague, a former local (non-party) politician and the Mayor of the Capital City of Prague. He is married with three sons and resides in Prague and Ostrava, alternatively.
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Benjamin Kuras
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- playwrightjournalistradio editorwritertranslator
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Benjamin Kuras is an Anglo-Czech writer dubbed “a humorist who is taken seriously” by The Prague Post and “Pope of Czech literature” by the Czech daily Dnes. His non-fiction writing covers a broad variety of subjects from history, politics and religion to sex and food. His preferred dramatic genre is tragi-comedy.
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Jan Balabán
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- journalistlinguistopinion journalistwritertranslator
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Jan Balabán was a Czech writer, journalist, and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition.
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Jindřich Štreit
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- photographerphoto artistteacherexhibition curatoruniversity teacher
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Jindřich Štreit is a Czech photographer and pedagogue. Known for his documentary photography, he concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. He is considered one of the most important exponents of Czech documentary photography.
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Libor Michálek
- Enrolled in Palacky University, Olomouc
- Graduated with magister degree in mathematics
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- civil servanteconomistpoliticianbroker
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Libor Michálek is a Czech financial analyst, politician, and whistleblower. He led successful corruption cases against the Czech National Property Fund and the Czech Ministry of the Environment, as a former employee of both. Michálek was the member of the Czech Senate for Prague 2 from 2012 to 2018, representing the Pirate Party. He was the first Pirate Party candidate to be elected to national office. Michálek lost subsequent bids for re-election.
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Svatopluk Němeček
- Enrolled in Palacky University, Olomouc
- 1990-1996 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in medicine
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- politicianphysician
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Svatopluk Němeček is a Czech politician and doctor, from 2014 to 2016 he served as the Czech Minister of Health in the government of Bohuslav Sobotka. From 2005 until 2014 he was the director of the Faculty Hospital in Ostrava, and from 2012 to 2014 he was a regional council-member of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
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Emil Viklický
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- film score composerconductorcomposerjazz musicianpianist
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Emil Viklický is a Czech jazz pianist and composer.
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Francis Dvornik
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- theologianuniversity teacherhistorianreligious writerchurch historian
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Francis Dvornik was a Czech academic medievalist, byzantinist, slavist and Catholic priest. He was one of the leading 20th century authorities on Slavic and Byzantine history and matters related to the churches of Rome and Constantinople. For almost three decades, he was a professor of Byzantine history at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies of Harvard University.
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Antonin Cyril Stojan
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priestpriestreligious writeropinion journalist
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Antonín Cyril Stojan was a Czech Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Olomouc from 1921 until his death. He was a politician prior to this and served in several political capacities while also serving as a pastor in several parishes where he strengthened social and charitable activities.
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Lumír Ondřej Hanuš
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- chemistpedagogueresearch fellownon-fiction writeropinion journalist
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Lumír Ondřej Hanuš is a Czech analytic chemist and leading authority in the field of cannabis research. In 1992, he and William Anthony Devane isolated and first described the structure of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter.
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Peter von Rittinger
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- scientist
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Peter Ritter von Rittinger or Peter von Rittinger was an Austrian pioneer of mineral processing.
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Jaroslav Miller
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- university teacherhistorian of Modern Agehistoriannon-fiction writerpedagogue
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Jaroslav Miller is a Czech historian who is a professor of history and rector at Palacký University in Olomouc. His focus is urban studies, the history of political thought and more recently also issues related to Czech and Slovak exile.
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Šárka Jelínková
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- social workerpolitician
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Šárka Jelínková is a Czech politician and social worker who had been Senator from Kroměříž from October 2016 to October 2022. In 2019 Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party leadership election she was elected as deputy chairwoman of the KDU-ČSL.
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Josef Jařab
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- literary theoristessayistliterary scholarliterary historiantextbook writer
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Josef Jařab was a Czech academic and politician. Rector of and professor at Palacký University Olomouc, and a member of the Civic Democratic Alliance, he served in the Senate from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2006.
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Jitka Chalánková
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- politicianphysician
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Jitka Chalánková is a Czech politician, doctor, former member of Chamber of Deputies for Olomouc region and former Chairwoman of TOP 09 party. Since 2018 she is a member of the Senate where as a member of the Civic Democratic Party caucus.
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Pavel Křížkovský
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- Catholic priestorganistteachermusic educatorchoir director
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Pavel Křížkovský was a Czech choral composer and conductor.
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Rudolf Eitelberger
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- writermuseologistart historianuniversity teacherteacher
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Rudolf Eitelberger was an Austrian art historian and the first Ordinarius (full professor) for art history at the University of Vienna. He is considered as the founder of the Vienna School of Art History.
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Johann Rudolf Kutschker
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- Christian ministerpedagogueCatholic priesttheologianuniversity teacher
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Johann Baptist Rudolph Kutschker was an Austrian cardinal of the Catholic church.
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František Klácel
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- journalistlibrarianediting staffpedagogueCatholic priest
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František Matouš Klácel was a Czech author, philosopher, pedagogue, and journalist. Since 1827 he was an Augustinian friar in Brno, co-brother of Gregor Mendel.
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Karel Slavíček
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- linguistpedagoguemathematicianwritermusicologist
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Karel Slavíček was a Jesuit missionary and scientist, the first Czech sinologist and author of the first precise map of Beijing.
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Anton Gindely
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- university teacherarchivistsecondary school teacherhistorianpedagogue
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Anton Gindely was a Czech historian.
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Alena Hanáková
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- teacherpolitician
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Alena Hanáková is a Czech politician, who served as Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic between December 2011 and July 2013 as part of Petr Nečas' Cabinet. She was appointed on 20 December 2011, becoming the second woman in the government after Karolína Peake.
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Franz Retz
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- pedagogue
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Franz Retz was a Bohemian Jesuit, elected fifteenth Superior General of the Society of Jesus, which he governed from 7 March 1730 to 19 November 1750.
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Jaroslav Erik Frič
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- editing staffwriterpublishermusicianpoet
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Jaroslav Erik Frič was a Czech poet, musician, publisher and organizer of underground culture festivals.
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Beda Dudík
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- archivistteacherCatholic priesthistorianregional historian
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Beda František Dudík was a historian and Benedictine monk in the Rajhrad Monastery.
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Johann Karl Nestler
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- pedagogueteachernon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
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Johann Karl Nestler, Czech: Jan Karel Nestler was an Austrian-Czech scientist in the field of hereditary traits, professor of natural history and agriculture at the Philosophical Faculty of University of Olomouc, dean of the faculty and rector of the university, and doyen of the Czech agriculture science.
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Jaroslava Maxová
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- opera singerpedagoguemusic educatoruniversity teacher
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Jaroslava Maxová is a Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer and vocal coach.
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Lucie Faulerová
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- bohemicistwriterediting staff
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Lucie Faulerová is a Czech writer. She got a degree in Czech studies from Palacký University in Olomouc. Her debut novel Lapači prachu (Dust Catchers) was nominated for the 2017 Magnesia Litera Award and the Jiří Orten Award. It has appeared in Spanish and German translation. With Kateřina Šedá, she co-authored the book BRNOX – Průvodce brněnským Bronxem (BRNOX – A guide to Brno’s Bronx), about a poor part of Brno. It won the 2016 Magnesia Litera Award for journalism.
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Taras Senkiv
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- Catholic bishopGreek-Catholic priestCatholic priest
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Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M. is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as an Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stryi since 2 June 2005 (until 21 November 2011 in rank of Eparchial Bishop). Previously he served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Stryi from 22 May 2008 until 20 January 2010 and as an Apostolic Administrator of the same Stryi from 20 January 2010 until 2 April 2014 as a Titular Bishop of Siccenna.
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Eduard Schön
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- composerwriter
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E. S. Engelsberg was a Silesian-Austrian composer.
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Miroslav Komárek
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- editing staffnon-fiction writerlinguistuniversity teacherbohemicist
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Miroslav Komárek was a Czech historical linguist and professor emeritus of the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc. His academic publications focused on the morphology and phonology of the Czech language from the diachronic perspective.
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Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer
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- Catholic priestastronomer
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Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer was an astronomer and a Jesuit missionary. His name in China was Qi Weicai (祁維材).
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Dagmar Navrátilová
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- translatorinterpreterteacherpolitician
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Dagmar Navrátilová is a Czech politician. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2010 election, representing Public Affairs (VV), but broke away with party leader Karolína Peake and five other politicians to form a new party. The new party founded after breaking away from VV was named LIDEM, which means "for the people" in Czech, and is also based on the first letters of "Liberal Democrats".
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Michal Peprník
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- Americanistuniversity teacherwriterpedagogueliterary critic
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Michal Peprník is a professor at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He is the Head of the Literature Section, and the Secretary of The Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies. He is also the chief coordinator of the international Olomouc Colloquium of American Studies. He taught Czech literature courses at the Department of Slavonic Languages & Literatures at the University of Glasgow in 1992-1993 and habilitated in 2003. His main fields of research include American Romanticism, concepts of space and metamorphosis (transformation), the myths of the West, and the literature of the Fantastic.
