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Important Countrymen and Personalities

related to Opočno

• Town holders - up to the 15th century:

Trčka,
Colloredo
- see History
• Vaňhal, Jan Křtitel (Johann Baptist) (*1739; +1813)
  Opočno organist from 1757, composer
  
• Josef Mirovít Král (*1789; +1841)
  National revival priest
  
• František Alois Skuherský (*12.3.1794 Opočno, Zámecká 65; +12.8.1864)
  
  Physician, Opočno hospital founder, physician, culture organizer
  The plate is on the hospital building in Nádražní street.
  
• Josef Vorel (*13.11.1801, Opočno; +19.12.1874, Zdice)
  Czech patriot, pastor, composer of famous songs, Czech revival activist
  Studied in Rychnov (n. Kn.), then philosophy and theology in Prague
  The plate is on the house no. 29 in Hradební street.
  

• Josef Mnohoslav Roštlapil (*15.8.1809 Kostelec nad Orlicí; +10.10.1888 Dobruška)
  From 1857 pastor in Opočno, historian, astronomer; author of Paměti města Dobrušky a panství opočenského (History of Dobruška and Opočno) (1887) and the Latin–German–Czech Medical Dictonary (1844)
  
• MUDr. Filip Stanislav Kodym (*1.5.1811 Opočno Kodymova 22; +4.5.1885)
  Physician, newspaper editor (Hospodářské noviny, Posel Prahy), representative (Czech Parliament), writer (Nedělní zábavy, Naučení o živlech, Lučba rolnická, Navedení k lučebnictví, Hospodářský klíč, Hospodářská kniha, Luběneckého včelaření v úlech dzierzonských, Zdravověda, Úvod do tělovědy člověka, Spolky na vzájemné pomáhání). Born in Opočno, No. 22
  
• Václav Vilém Trnobranský (Trnobranský Wáclaw Wilém), pseudonym Jan Městecký (*3.11.1819 Rosice u Chrastě; +27.3.1883 Opočno)
  Writer and poet, author of the scenario to Smetana's Rolnická
  The plate is on the house no. 134 on Kupka square.
  České mládeži, Václ. V. Trnobranského Vybrané spisy veršem i prosou., Památník národního písemnictví, ...
  
• Jan Sekavec (*1824; +15.6.1851 Praha-Hradčany)
  Revolutionary and poet in 1848, 1849, The Twelfth of June or A Warning to the Czechs (1849)
  Information in Czech: Bouza, Erik: Před stošedesáti lety se narodil Jan Sekavec; Baštecká Lydia : Jan Sekavec z Opočna - básník revolučních let 1848-1849 (Orlické hory a Podorlicko 10/2000 ISBN 80-86076-23-7)
  
  
• Antonín Flesar (*14.5.1828, Sirákov; +29.7.1898, Dobruška)
  From 1886 vicar in Dobruška, local theatre and literature


• Rudolf Skuherský (*23.4.1828 Opočno; +9.10.1863 Praha Vysočany (diphtheria))
  Studied mathematics, physics, botanics, descriptive geometry
  Teacher at Vienna University
  Professor of mathematics (geometry) at the Royal Czech Polytechnical Institute in Prague (first presented lessons in Czech language)
  Czech national revival supporter
  From 1861 Country Parliament deputy
  Son of F. A. Skuherský
  
• František Zdeněk (Zdenko Xavier Alois) Skuherský (*31.7.1830; +19.8.1892)
  Musician, Prague organ school director
  Son of F. A. Skuherský
  The plate is on the post office building in Nádražní street.
  
• František Řivnáč (*1842, Praha; +23.8.1891, Opočno)
  Forest administrator in Colloredo-Mannsfeld large manor.
  Developed a network of forest roads and mountain huts in Eagle Mountains area.
  
• Jan Dvořák (*1849; +1916)
  Physician, from 1880 in Opočno, after 1903 director of Prague maternity hospital. District mayor and parliament deputy. Editor of newspapers ("Posel od pomezi Kladského" and "Rozhledy lidové"). Enforced women's right to study medicine at the university (1900).
  

• František Kupka (*23.9.1871, Opočno, Bohemia, Austrian-Ungarn Monarchy [now Czech Republic]; +24.6.1957, Puteaux, France)
Painter and graphic artist, professor in Paris and Prague (sample images (13) or more images (65))
Pioneer of abstract painting and one of the first completely nonrepresentational artists. His mature works contributed much to the foundations of purely abstract painting in the 20th century. Kupka studied at the Prague and Vienna art academies. French Legion of Honor (Legion d'Honneur) officer.
The plate is on the house no. 6 in Zámecká street.

Centre Georges Pompidou Museum 1
Centre Georges Pompidou Museum 2
Louis Stern Fine Arts
Yellow Spot, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Encyclopaedia Britannica


• Miloslav Hégr (*1891 Sušno u Mladé Boleslavi; +1968 Opočno)
  Painter, art scientist, art teacher
  


• Luboš Sluka (*13. 9. 1928 Opočno)
  Composer: Compositions - orchestral, chamber, for solo instruments; Songs; Choirs; Cantata; Musical comedies
  Details: Czech Music Information Centre
  
• Václav Rathouský (*15.12.1922 Opočno)
  For decades keeping the Opočno town chronicles. Co-author of the book OPOČNO 1068-2000
  
  
• Ludmila Mojžíšová (*25. 10. 1932 Užhorod; +3. 1. 1992 Praha)
  Therapeutist, famous mainly for developing exercises preventing sport related diseases and women infertility.
  She grew up in Opočno, later worked mainly in Prague.
  
  
• Martin Holanec
  Motorbike racer, winner of Přebor ČR klasiků 350" in 2006, 2007, 2009.
  

• Pavel Brendl (*23.3.1981 Opočno)
  HC Olomouc, New York Rangers, Calgary Hitmen, Hartford Wolf Pack, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Phantoms, Carolina HurricanesLowell Lock Monsters, HC Oceláři Třinec, Jokipojat Joensuu, HC Thurgau, San Antonio Rampage, Mora IK Sweden, Brynas IF Gavle Sweden, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, ...
  Awarded the Bob Clarke Trophy (WHL Top Scorer) in 1999.
  Ice hockey legends, Elite hockey prospects, wikipedia
  

• Taťána (Táňa) Kuchařová (*23.12.1987 Trnava (SK))
  Miss World 2006
  Besides Miss ČR 2006, Miss Sympathy ČR 2006, Miss Moravia (semifinal of Miss ČR), Vice-Miss Bikini 2006, Miss Northern Europe 2006, ...

Hieronymus Bosch
HIERONYMUS FOUNDATION
Jesus among the doctors in the gallery

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