Svatopluk Cech - Vysehrad Cemetery (Prague, Czechia)
N 50° 03.894 E 014° 25.036
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Grave of influential Czech writer and poet of the 19th century, Svatopluk Cech, you can find in the Czech national burial ground - Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague (Slavínský hrbitov pri kostele sv. Petra a Pavla na Vyšehrade).
Waymark Code: WM12B07
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/17/2020
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Grave of influential Czech writer and poet of the 19th century, Svatopluk Cech, you can find in the Czech national burial ground - Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague (Slavínský hrbitov pri kostele sv. Petra a Pavla na Vyšehrade).
Svatopluk Cech classical austere granite tomb is decorated by his bronze statue on podestal. The author of a portrait statue of Svatopluk Cech is sculptor Jakub Obrovský. Grave can be found in Department 15-1 of the Vyšehrad cemetery under number 3.
Svatopluk Cech (February 21, 1846 in Ostredek near Benešov – February 23, 1908 in Prague) was a Czech writer, journalist and poet.
Cech studied at gymnasium (secondary school) in Prague, then studied law, and later worked in the journals Kvety, Lumír and Svetozor. His best known work today is a series of satirical novels, Výlety pana Broucka (1888, 1889), two of which were used as the basis for Janácek's opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek to the Moon and to the 15th Century (Výlet pana Broucka do Mesíce/Výlet pana Broucka do XV. století). Cech himself appears as an apparition in Act Three of the opera. A bridge in Prague bears the name Svatopluk Cech Bridge (Most Svatopluka Cecha) in his honor. Also multiple streets in various Czech cities are named after him.
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