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About the city / personalities

Franz Kafka

a writer (1883 - 1924)

He visited Třešť several times as a student in the period 1900 - 1907 when he was spending here his holidays at his uncle´s MUDr. Siegfried Lowy. In 2001, there were Franz Kafka´s bust unveiled on the front MUDr. Lowy´s house. At the local museum you can visit an exhibition devoted to Kafka´s family, stay in Třešť and his work. Kafka´s famous short story The Country Doctor also originated in Třešť environment.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

a lawyer and an economist 1883 - 1950

The Schumpeter family was rich and highly respected family for many generations in Třešť. The records in the town register trace the family tree back even to Jan Schumpeter from the end of the 16th century. J. A. Schumpeter was born in Třešť in 1883. After his father´s death in 1887 he, together with his mother, moved to Jihlava and then to Graz. Having finished the 4th grade of primary school, they moved to Vienna. As a ten-year-old boy he attended Theresianum, a famous Vienna grammar school where, in 1901, he passed his final examination with honours. He went on studying law and political sciences at university and on 16th February 1906 was conferred a university degree Doctor of Laws. In 1909 was J. A. Schumpeter appointed as a senior lecturer in political economy. He worked at universities in Czernowitz, Graz, and as a guest lecturer at Columbia University in New York in the USA. On 15th March he became the 1st Minister of Finance in newly established state, the Austrian Republic. He was giving lectures at Bonn University, Harvard University and also in Japan where he played a most important role in rapid economical development of Japan.

Šimon Partlic (von Špicberk)

1590 - 1649

Třešť native, a mathematician, a phisician and an astronomer, the author of some scientific works and an educator of Fridrich Falsky´s (so called "Winter King") son. After the Battle at White Mountain in 1620 he emigrated to Germany. In 1621 he reached a university degree Doctor of Medicine at Basel University and in 1925 he became a member of Academy in Leyden (Holland). The place of his death reamined unknown.

Colonel Josef Jiří Švec

legionary, a member of the organization Falcon 1883 - 1918

Born in Čenkov, he studied at Pelhřimov grammar school and also graduated at college of education. After that he left for Russia. When the WW I broke out he joined the Czech Group. He was decorated with many orders and medals and in August 1918 was promoted to the rank of colonel. The memorial plaque on his parental house was unveiled on 16th September 1945.

Emil Kosa

1851 – 1919, a painter, Alfons Mucha´s pupil

Born on the 21st September in Třešť, house number 24, parents Josef Kosa and Františka nee Schumpeter. Emil Kosa studied at German secondary school in Jihlava and after that some circumstances forced him to work as a merchant shop assistant in Berger´s shop in his native Třešť. The ambitious young man, however, didn´t like the job much and therefore he accepted the offer for a vacancy as a teacher in the nearby village Salavice. In the following years he also tried to earn his living as a painter.

Otto Šimánek

a theatre and film actor, 1925 - 1992

This popular theatre and film actor was born in Třešť on the 28th April 1925 and, as it is said, by mistake, because his parents lived in Stajiště, a small village near Třešť. According to the stories of the natives, he was born directly „on the counter of the Třešť chemist“ which was located at the area near the present bus station.

František Richter, MUDr.

He was born on the 27th November 1870 at a worker´s family. After six-year studies he graduated from the Charles University, School of Medicine on the 23rd July 1898 and at the same year he started his medicine practice in Třešť. He worked as a general practitioner, a railway dokcor, a panel doctor, a doctor for estate workers, later also as a town doctor.

Leopold Fritz, MUDr.

On the 8tth December 1813, he was born in Třešť at a lodge “na Pouštích”. After finishing Jihlava grammar school he studied at first at the Charles University, School of Philosophy and after two years he changed to School of Medicine. After studies, in 1837, he acted as a general practitioner in Jihlava. He became an advisor of Czech families, he himself was looking up the poor and treated them for free.

Josef Konarovský, MUDr.

Born in Červený Kostelec in 1840, he studied medicine in Prague and, in 1866, he also graduated there. For a short time he acted as an army doctor and after the Russian-Austrian War he came to Třešť as a first Czech university-educated doctor. Because of his real interest in the health service and mainly in a man himself, his basic activity naturally remains curing and caring of ill people.

Jiří John

He was born on the 6th November 1923 in Třešť. In 1938, he finished the local town school and started to study of a locksmith. From his childhood he also tried to paint. He worked at a machine factory in Hedvikov and, at the same time, he created some pen-and-ink drawings for a student magazine „The Wind“. After the Second World War he was enrolled to the State Graphic School in Prague and in 1946 to the Arts and Crafts School. At that time he also began to create, with the help of his teacher Josef Kaplický, his first specific paintings.

František Král, PhDr.

He was born on the 25th August 1887 in Třešť. After graduating from Pelhřimov grammar school he also successfully finished „imperial and royal Czech Karlo-Ferdinand University“ in Prague where he studied classical philology (branch Greek – Latin) and reached the academic title Doctor of Philosophy. After passing an exam for teachers he started to act as a teacher and professor at the state Czech grammar school in Moravian Ostrava.

Some of the famous musicians in Třešť

František Hořalka -1798 - 1871, a violinist
Jan Evangelista Hořalka -1796 - 1860, a pianist and composer
Václav Hořalka -1815 - 1878, an organist and teacher
Alois Pivný - 1897 - 1976, a viola player, the founder of Třešť music school in 1945

Teachers, schoolmasters and professors who organized social life in Třešť and spread the glory of our town at many universities

Emanuel Binko - 1851 - 1893, a teacher and composer
Alois Hrudička - 1843 - 1912, a professor and writer
Prof. Vincenc Jelínek - 1896 - 1963, a university teacher and dean at Agriculture College in Brno
Prof. Rudolf Ježek - 1893 - 1975, a headmaster of a grammar school in Vienna
Karel Kryštůfek - 1859 - 1915, a teacher at a local town school, a founder of Kraštůfek´s Park, a patriot and an organizer of Czech life in Třešť

Prominent painters, sculptors and actors

Ac. Sculptor Jaroslav Krechler - 1908 - 1982, the author of the sculptural group at the Prison Yard
Ing. Arch. Karel Náhunek - 1891 - 1979, the author of a textbook for secondary school students, an architect of the Moravian Committee
Ac. Painter Richrd Přikryl - 1906 - 1978, a painter of the Highland

Prominet physicians and local politicians

MUDr. Siegfried Lowy - 1867 - 1942, a Třešť doctor, a popularizer of progres, Franz Kafka´s uncle

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