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Important Countrymen and Personalities

related to Opocno

• Town holders - up to the 15th century:

Trcka,
Colloredo
- see History
• Vanhal, Jan Krtitel (Johann Baptist) (*1739; +1813)
  Opocno organist from 1757, composer
  
• Josef Mirovit Kral (*1789; +1841)
  National revival priest
  
• Frantisek Alois Skuhersky (*12.3.1794 Opocno, Zamecka 65; +12.8.1864)
  
  Physician, Opocno hospital founder, physician, culture organizer
  
  
• Josef Vorel (*13.11.1801, Opocno; +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
  

• Josef Mnohoslav Rostlapil (*15.8.1809 Kostelec nad Orlici; +10.10.1888 Dobruska)
  From 1857 pastor in Opocno, historian, astronomer; author of Pameti mesta Dobrusky a panstvi opocenskeho (History of Dobruska and Opocno) (1887) and the Latin–German–Czech Medical Dictonary (1844)
  
• MUDr. Filip Stanislav Kodym (*1.5.1811 Opocno Kodymova 22; +4.5.1885)
  Physician, newspaper editor (Hospodarske noviny, Posel Prahy), representative (Czech Parliament), writer (Nedelni zabavy, Nauceni o zivlech, Lucba rolnicka, Navedeni k lucebnictvi, Hospodarsky klic, Hospodarska kniha, Lubeneckeho vcelareni v ulech dzierzonskych, Zdravoveda, Uvod do telovedy cloveka, Spolky na vzajemne pomahani). Born in Opocno, No. 22
  
• Vaclav Trnobransky (*1819; +1883)
  Writer and poet, author of the scenario to Smetana's Rolnicka
  
  
• Jan Sekavec (*1824; +1851)
  Revolutionary and poet in 1848, 1849 (more in "Orlicke hory a Podorlicko", No. 10, 2000, ISBN 80-86076-23-7)
• Rudolf Skuhersky (*1828; +1863)
  Professor of mathematics at Prague University, from 1861 parliament deputy
• Antonin Flesar (*14.5.1828, Sirakov; +29.7.1898, Dobruska)
  From 1886 vicar in Dobruska, local theatre and literature
• Frantisek Zdenko Skuhersky (*1830; +1892)
  Musician, Prague organ school director
  
  
• Frantisek Rivnac (*1842, Praha; +23.8.1891, Opocno)
  Forest administrator in Colloredo-Mannsfeld large manor.
  Developed a network of forest roads and mountain huts in Eagle Mountains area.
  
• Jan Dvorak (*1849; +1916)
  Physician, from 1880 in Opocno, after 1903 director of Prague maternity hospital. District mayor and parliament deputy. Editor of newspapers ("Posel od pomezi Kladskeho" and "Rozhledy lidove"). Enforced women's right to study medicine at the university (1900).
  

• Frantisek Kupka (*23.9.1871, Opocno, 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.

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 Hegr (*1891 Susno u Mlade Boleslavi; +1968 Opocno)
  Painter, art scientist, art teacher
  


• Lubos Sluka (*13. 9. 1928 Opocno)
  Composer: Compositions - orchestral, chamber, for solo instruments; Songs; Choirs; Cantata; Musical comedies
  Details: Czech Music Information Centre
  
• Vaclav Rathousky (*Opocno)
  For decades keeping the Opocno town chronicles. Co-author of the book OPOCNO 1068-2000
  
  
• Ludmila Mojzisova (*25. 10. 1932 Uzhorod - 3. 1. 1992 Praha)
  Therapeutist, famous mainly for developing exercises preventing sport related diseases and women infertility.
  She grew up in Opocno, later worked mainly in Prague.
  
  

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ARTISTS WHO WORKED FOR OPOCNO

• Giovanni B. Bulla
  Sculptor. In Opocno sculpture Resurrection of Jesus Christ in Holy Trinity Church and Marian pillar on Kupkovo namesti.
• Andrea d´Agnolo del Sarto (*1486; +1531)
  Painter, worked also for the Medici family and for the King of France
• Hieronymus Bosch
  HIERONYMUS FOUNDATION
  Jesus among the doctors in the gallery
  
• Francesco Solimena called L'ABBATE CICCIO
  Painter

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• Pavel Brendl (*1981)
  NHL hockey player
  NHL players, New York Rangers , mirror?
  reference

• Tatana (Tana) Kucharova (*23.12.1987 Trnava (SK))
  Miss World 2006
  Besides Miss CR 2006, Miss Sympathy CR 2006, Miss Moravia (semifinal of Miss CR), Vice-Miss Bikini 2006, Miss Northern Europe 2006, ...

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