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Famous personalities
Despite the unquestionable effect of science, our view of the past and the present is the same as with old nations. It is based on narrations told by real people.
Antonín Dvořák
1841 – 1904
World famous music composer, who worked in Lipník nad Bečvou at the family of the national revivalist Jan Antonovič Neff and who composed the work Moravian Duets at his request, having its premier in Lipník nad Bečvou during the winter holidays in 1877.
Bedřich Smetana
1824 – 1884
World famous music composer. He spent summers with his family during the years 1852–1854 in Týn nad Bečvou.
Edith Steinová
1891 – 1942
Philosopher interested in Phenomenology, the personal secretary to Edmund Husserl.
Edmund Husserl
1859 – 1938
World famous philosopher, the founder of Phenomenology, was born in 1859 in the Jewish ghetto in Prostějov.
František Venclovský
1932 – 1996
Iron man, long distance swimmer, and first Czech to swim across La Manche.
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