Vincenc Prasek

Vincenç Prasek (also: Vinzenz Prasek; born April 9, 1843 in Milostovice, † December 31, 1912 in Napajedla ) was a Czech local historian, linguist, historian and journalist.

Life

Praseks father, who died early, came from the Prussian part of Silesia, his mother from the country Opava ( Opava ). 1873 married Vincent Prasek in Olomouc Kateřina Opluštilová, with whom he had four sons and one daughter.

After primary school visit to Milostovice Prasek was to 1863 students of the German School in Opava. Subsequently, he studied until 1867 at the Vienna University of Classical Philology at Franz Miklošić and Alois Vojtěch Šembera and from 1867 to 1868 at the University of Wroclaw. In 1868 he received his doctorate in Vienna.

His school career began in 1868 as an intern at the German High School in Opava and the Czech secondary schools in Olomouc, Tabor and Chrudim. From 1871, he worked as a teacher at the Olomouc Slavic school, and became director in 1883 of the Czech School in Opava. In 1895 he became director of the Slavic grammar school in Olomouc. After his retirement he moved in 1905 after Napajedla.

In addition to his teaching activities Prasek was scientifically active and composed during the period 1863 to 1912 a number of local history books and essays which mainly deal with the history of Moravia and part of Silesia, which remained after the Silesian Wars in Austria and to establishing Czechoslovakia in 1918 called Austrian Silesia. He was also involved in the founding of several journals.

For his local history research, he was made an honorary citizen of the towns Tovačov, Marianske Hory and Polish Ostrava. Pope Leo XIII. made him a Knight of St Gregory. In 1910 he was appointed curator of the Moravian Museum in Brno.

Works ( selection)

  • Czech language and literature. In: The Austrian Monarchy in Words and Pictures, 1880, pp. 615-622
  • Čeština na Opavsku: rozprava historicko - gramatická. Olomouc 1877
  • Paměti městečka Napajedel a dedin k panství Napajedelskému ode Davna příslušných. Val Meziříčí 1881
  • Historická topography Země Opavské. Opava 1889
  • Dejiny kraje Holasovského čili Opavského. Opava 1891
  • Dejiny knížectví Těšínského. Opava 1894
  • Codex Diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae. Collection of documents on the history of Moravia. Brno 1903-1904
  • Olomouc PRY Velehradem. Olomouc 1907
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