TIC BRNO ↓ BRNO CENTRAL CEMETERY

Guide 2 A BRIEF GUIDE 3 TO BRNO CENTRAL CEMETERY The guide highlights historic personalities groves, scattering meadows and ash burial buried in Central Cemetery of Brno and meadows, columbaria. belongs to a project that can be found online on hrbitovy.brno.cz. Some groups of graves have a special position. Among them mainly are the so Brno Central Cemetery was built at the called honorary burial grounds, where Vídeňská Street according to a project significant personalities are laid to rest. by architect Alois Prastorfer, who also is It is for example the group 25e (also author of administrative buildings near the referred to as the “Circle of Honour”), main entrance and near the side entrance groups H5 and H5e (so-called Alley of from the Jihlavská Street. The opening Honour), and in the cemetery area we ceremony took place on November 3, 1883. also find individual graves of honour. Also Now the cemetery counts among the distinguished is the position of military largest in the . It served burial grounds (groups 47, 49, 56, 66, 79), from the beginning as a burial place for where the remains of military personnel all, regardless of religion, social status, are buried. These graves are maintained nationality or race. according to requirements of Geneva Conventions for military graves. The present-day mourning hall near the main gate was built according to a project The cemetery is not only the last resting by architects Bohuslav Fuchs and Josef place of buried persons, but also a gallery Polášek and it was opened on April 3, 1927. of artistically valuable gravestones from The elegant building in early constructi- famous sculptors or well-known stone- vist style is now a protected monument. mason’s workshops. Such gravestones The crematorium in the upper part of are entered in the State Register of Im- the cemetery at the Jihlavská Street, movable Cultural Monuments. which was built according to a project by architect Ernst Wiesner in functionalist An integral part of the cemetery is greene- style, was declared a National Cultural ry, which has been intentionally cultivated Monument. The first funeral ceremony since the founding of the cemetery with took place here on April 8, 1930. The the aim to change the place of grief into crematorium is supplemented with urn a place of serenity and hope. 4 5 Karel Absolon Josef (Joža) Barvič Ivan Blatný Lev Blatný

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* 16. 6. 1877 * 13. 8. 1853 Velké Karlovice * 21. 12. 1919 Brno * 11. 4. 1894 Brno † 6. 10. 1960 Brno † 3. 1. 1924 Brno † 5. 8. 1990 Ipswich (UK) † 21. 6. 1930 Kvetnica (SK)

Geologist, speleologist, archaeologist. Bookseller, publisher. In 1883 he opened Poet. He sought inspiration in nature Prose writer, theatre critic, editor. He Famous explorer of karst areas, disco- the first Czech publishing house and and philosophy, lived the most part of acted as a lecturer and playwright in the verer of Punkva Caves in the Moravian bookshop in Brno, where he assembled his life in exile, but his greatest desire Brno National Theatre, and became the Karst and of a mammoth hunters’ camp a stable group of cultural workers. We can was to come back to his beloved native first chairman of the Brno Literary Group. site at Dolní Věstonice. find the name Barvič in all Czech literary, town of Brno. This dream of him came music and sport societies of that time, true in 1991, after his death. After their death, son and father were The gravesite with a model of a limes- he took part in all events which helped reunited after years apart in trachyte tone cave was designed by Ferdinand to strengthen the Czech national aware- composition of the gravestone with urns Dobrovolný, the gravestone is protected ness in the town. by Milivoj Husák. as a monument. The unauthorized gravestone is protected as a monument.

Group 25e, grave No. 57 Group 70, grave No. 126–127 Group 25e, grave No. 2 6 7 Thomas Bracegirdle Gustav Brom Vlastimil Bubník Josef Dobrovský

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* 21. 11. 1795 Leeds (UK) * 22. 5. 1921 Veľké Leváre (SK) * 18. 3. 1931 Kelč * 17. 8. 1753 Balassagyarmat (HU) † 27. 11. 1873 Brno † 25. 9. 1995 Brno † 6. 1. 2015 Brno † 6. 1. 1829 Brno

Technical designer and engineering in- Conductor, clarinettist, saxophonist. Ice-hockey and football player. Philologist, historian, founder of Czech dustrialist of British descent. After his In 1948 he came to an orchestra, in Legendary ice-hockey forward who Slavic studies. He was the first to write arrival in Brno in the 1840s he founded in the which he worked as a conductor for won three bronze medals in three world down the history of Czech language and town a factory which produced machines unbelievable fifty three years and which championships and entered the hall of literature and set up a German-Czech for wool textile industry. His factory, which counted among the top ten big bands fame of the International Ice-Hockey dictionary. His interest in archaeology besides textile machines also produced worldwide. Federation (IIHF) in 1997. He counted resulted in archaeological relics being re- cranes, boilers, fire engines or weaponry among the last sportsmen, who played garded as a fully-fledged historical source. components, was one of the predecessors The black granite gravestone was both ice-hockey and football on the of the First Brno Engineering and Manu- made by Miroslav Vochta. top level; in the 1960 European Football The National cultural monument – a sto- facturing Company, established in 1872. Championship he won a bronze medal. ne pyramid, designed by Leo von Klee, contains a cavity for the cast-iron sar- The gravestone is protected as The white marble gravestone was made cophagus. Remains of the scholar and a monument. by Dušan Váňa. the gravestone were moved here from Old Brno Cemetery in 1909.

Group 14, grave No. 38–40 Group 25e, grave No. 36 Group H5e, grave No. 7 Group 70, grave No. 126–127 8 9 Vlasta Fialová Rudolf Firkušný Bohuslav Fuchs Johann Paulus Herring

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* 20. 1. 1928 Brno * 11. 2. 1912 Napajedla * 24. 3. 1895 Všechovice * 14. 2. 1758 Tennenlohe bei Erlangen (DE) † 11. 1. 1998 Brno † 19. 7. 1994 Staatsburg (USA) † 18. 9. 1972 Brno † 15. 1. 1836 Brno

Theatre and movie actress, pedagogue Pianist. He gave his first public concert Architect, town planner, professor in Industrialist, entrepreneur in wool texti- in the Janáček Academy of Music and as an eight-year-old boy. Before Nazi Brno University of Technology. He coun- le production, mining and banking. One Performing Arts (JAMU). Her artistic ca- occupation he went to USA, and then ted among the most distinctive perso- of the founders of Moravian textile indu- reer was mainly associated with State emigrated again after February 1948. nalities of the interwar Czechoslovak stry, who came from Nuremberg and lived Theatre Brno, she also cooperated with He categorically refused to give con- architecture and created projects for and worked in Brno since 1780. Brno Radio. An unforgettable movie role certs for the then political regime in many outstanding buildings in Brno. of her became Divá Bára (Wild Barbara) and returned to his He is buried in a family tomb from 1851 from the eponymous movie. country as late as after 1990. For his bra- The gravestone with post-mortem cast designed by the Viennese architect Josef ve civil attitude, musical mastery and of a hand of the deceased (made by Jiří Fuss. The tomb – a national cultural monu- The bronze grave sculpture was made promotion of Czech music abroad he Marek) was designed by his son Kamil ment – was moved from the old cemetery by sculptor Nikos Armutidis. was awarded many honours and prizes. Fuchs. The gravestone is protected at what is now the Kounicova Street. as a monument. The gravestone was made by Václav Fiala.

Group 25e, No. 37 Group 25e, grave No. 43 Group 25e, grave No. 53 Group 22a, grave No. 1–10 10 11 Josef Hybeš Josef Chytil Leoš Janáček Vítězslava Kaprálová

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* 29. 1. 1850 Dašice * 9. 3. 1812 Kojetín * 3. 7. 1854 Hukvaldy * 24. 1. 1915 Brno † 19. 7. 1921 Brno † 10. 2. 1861 Brno † 12. 8. 1928 Ostrava † 16. 6. 1940 Montpellier (FR)

Politician, journalist. Distinctive figure Archivist, historian, writer. He pub- Composer, pedagogue, initially a condu- Composer and conductor. She be- of social-democratic labour movement lished important sources on the history ctor of Beseda brněnská (cultural society came the first Czech female conductor in Austria-Hungary, Czech deputy in of , and counted among signi- and artistic ensemble), director of or- who gave a concert with the Czech the Imperial Council, a man who was lo- ficant Czech national workers in Brno. gan school and later a composition pro- Philharmonic, and as a guest conducted ved by workpeople but at the same time fessor in the State Conservatory of Music. in 1938 the BBC Symphony Orchestra respected by his politic opponents. After The sandstone gravestone with an He applied his original musical expression in her own composition “Military emergence of the Czechoslovak Republic angel sculpture and a marble portrait in orchestral works, song cycles and mainly Sinfonietta”. The promising life path he became member of the Revolution medallion was restored after transfer in operas. After years of incomprehension, and career of the author of orchestral National Assembly and senator. of the grave from the Old Brno Cemetery still during his life, he gained recognition works, songs and vocal compositions in 1909. The gravestone was made and today he is considered a world-famous was terminated by untimely death. The gravestone with a portrait medallion by Josef Břenek and is protected as composer with an original, modern style. of the deceased and a sculptural group of a monument. a workman’s family was made by Rudolf The gravesite, designed by Eduard Milén, Schiebl and is protected as a monument. is a cultural monument.

Group 25e, grave No. 18 Group 32, grave No. 4a Group 25e, grave No. 64 Group H5, grave No. 98 12 13 Emil Králík Pavel Křížkovský Jarmila Kurandová Jiří Mahen

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* 21. 2. 1880 Prague * 9. 1. 1850 Holasovice * 30. 1. 1890 Veselá u Počátek * 12. 12. 1882 Čáslav † 20. 6. 1946 Prague † 8. 5. 1885 Brno † 6. 12. 1978 Brno † 22. 5. 1939 Brno

Architect, university pedagogue. Mem- Composer, choral conductor. He foun- Theatre and movie actress. In the Brno Poet, writer, playwright, journalist. One of ber of the interwar Czechoslovak archi- ded choral tradition in Moravia based theatre he mainly portrayed caring mo- the most significant figures in literary life tectonic avant garde, the first chairman on folk songs and folk speech, which he thers, older women and grandmothers. of Brno since 1910 until his tragic death. in the Brno Club of Architects. His name is studied and used in his compositional After being retired, she returned to the He tirelessly participated in cultural life, also associated with the Brno Exhibition work. He also composed sacred music stage as the Grandma – a famous figu- was an adviser to young authors and a Ground where he supervised the building on a high artistic level. re created by the Czech writer Božena friend to many outstanding personalities realisation of individual pavilions. He him- Němcová. She also portrayed the same of the time. He founded a public library self designed the projects for the entran- As a member of the Augustinian order he figure in an unforgettable way in a mo- and became its first director. ce building, cinema and the adjacent café. was buried in the monastic tomb, which vie by director Moskalyk. She gave was designed by German Wanderley and to this role everything what the Brno Natural appearance of the gravesite was The gravestone with a female worshipper built by Antonín Tomola. The tomb is audience appreciated – psychological designed by František Kalivoda, the gra- was designed by Hubert Kovařík in 1932. protected as a monument. profile of the figure, wisdom, humanity vestone inspired by the so-called erratic and kindness. block was created later by Jiří Marek and is a cultural monument.

Group H6, grave No. 233 Group 2, grave No. 83 Group 25e, grave No. 12 Group 25e, grave No. 62 14 15 Jiří Marek Gregor Johann Mendel Josef Merhaut Oldřich Mikulášek

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* 16. 1. 1914 Velké Meziříčí * 20. 7. 1822 Hynčice * 13. 10. 1863 Zbiroh * 26. 5. 1910 Přerov † 16. 2. 1993 Brno † 6. 1. 1884 Brno † 5. 9. 1907 Brno † 13. 7. 1985 Brno

Sculptor. His works were mainly intended Scientist, pedagogue, priest. Based on Writer, journalist. In his short stories Poet, journalist. Lyric and lyric-epic poet for public spaces, most of them were in- his experiments with pea cross-breeding from Brno he depicted social motifs with who loved nature in all its transformati- spired by music and literature. He created he discovered heredity – the laws of the scenery of urban periphery, dark ons, spoke about the non-naturalness of many memorial plaques of significant Mendelian inheritance. He gained post- workshops and joyless factory yards. Very human existence, expressed his doubts, cultural personalities connected with Brno. humous world recognition and today he is meritorious was his long time work as a perceived human relations warped by Also important were works dedicated considered one of the greatest biologists theatre critic who paid attention to actors, totalitarian society. As a journalist he to persons and events of the occupation in the world. He was also engaged in mete- repertoire and dramaturgical issues of the wrote feuilletons for the newspaper Lidové period and anti-fascist resistance. orology, beekeeping and fruit-growing. Brno National Theatre and helped to raise noviny, after the war he was chief of the As a member of the Augustinian order the general level of Czech theatre in Brno. Culture column in the Brno daily newspaper The grave sculpture with the phrase he carried out experiments in the garden Rovnost and editor in the Moravian literary I will return there by the Czech poet of the Old Brno Monastery. The sandstone gravestone with a sculptu- journal Host do domu. Halas, which is a marble enlargement re of an allegory of Grief was created in the of a sculptural work of the deceased, He was buried in the monastic tomb, stonemason’s school in Hořice according The gravestone with a portrait bust and was created by his grandson Jiří Marek. a cultural monument, designed by German to a model by Jan Štursa. a facsimile signature of the poet was crea- Wanderley and built by Antonín Tomola. ted by Ladislav Martínek and Miloš Slezák.

Group 25e, grave No. 31 Group 2, grave No. 81 Group 19, grave No. 23–24 Group 25e, grave No. 10 16 17 Arne Novák František Pavlík Vilém Petrželka Antonín Procházka

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* 2. 3. 1880 Litomyšl * 16. 8. 1885 Ořechov u Brna * 10. 2. 1889 Brno-Královo Pole * 5. 6. 1882 Vážany † 26. 11. 1939 Polička † 2. 10. 1905 Brno † 10. 1. 1967 Brno † 9. 6. 1945 Brno

Literary historian, university pedago- “And when a king would die today in Brno, Composer, pedagogue. He often compo- Painter, graphic artist. He produced gue. As a professor in the field of Czech his funeral would not be more magnifi- sed his concert pieces to words of Czech his works in cubistic and neoclassical literature he became in 1938 the last cent than that of a humble Czech work- poets. His works found wide response style and became one of the pioneers pre-war rector of the Brno university be- man.” These words were spoken by priest mainly at the time of Nazi occupation. of modern art in the early 20th century. fore all Czech universities were closed in Tomáš Šilinger at the funeral of a young He became composition professor in the He also gained international recogniti- February 1939. He was author of theore- carpenter, who was stabbed to death by Brno Conservatory of Music and later on and the collectors are permanently tical literary-historical works and studies, the bayonet of an imperial soldier on the in the Janáček Academy of Music and interested in his works. Already in 1946 and collaborated with the newspaper stairs of the Besední dům House during Performing Arts. The sandstone sculpture he was posthumously awarded the title Lidové noviny as a literary critic. a peaceful demonstration calling for the of Music was created by Jiří Marek, the National Artist. founding of a Czech university in Brno. gravestone is protected as a monument. The gravestone with iron casting of the sculpture “Winner” by Jan Štursa The gravestone is protected as is protected as a monument. a monument.

Group 32, grave No. 115 Group 68, grave No. 245 Group 25e, grave No. 54b Group 25e, grave No. 61 18 19 Else Rüthel-Schaber Rudolf von Singule Jan Skácel František Sušil

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* 3. 8. 1899 Cologne (DE) * 8. 4. 1883 Pula (HR) * 7. 2. 1922 Vnorovy * 14. 6. 1804 Rousínov † 19. 7. 1938 Brno † 2. 5. 1945 Brno † 7. 11. 1989 Brno † 31. 5. 1868 Bystřice pod Hostýnem

Left-wing poetess, translator and actre- Soldier and sailor. He served on military Poet, writer, journalist. In his world-view Poet, translator, theologian, collector of ss, representative of a large group of ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, since he proceeded from basic values of human folk songs. He became theology professor emigrants, who fled from after 1909 he became one of the first officers life, emphasized moral principles, pride, in Brno, translated the New Testament and the ascension of national socialists to in the Austria’s U-boat fleet. During the truthfulness, humble bravery. In folk songs, equipped it with commentaries. Today he power in the 1930s. In 1933, she and her World War I he achieved great success fairy tales and biblical stories he found re- is most noted for his collecting and ex- husband Willem Schaber settled down in combat operations as a commander fuge from the superficiality and tempo of ploratory activity in the field of folk songs, in Brno, where they worked as journalists. of U-4 submarine. He probably served as the modern world. He worked as a literary mainly for his monumental work “Moravian But Else became ill and died. After her the only U-boat captain of Czech des- editor in Brno Radio, editor-in-chief in the Folk Songs and Melodies”. This work in- death, her husband left the Czechoslovak cent in the German Kriegsmarine during Moravian literary journal Host do domu, spired many composers, for example Leoš Republic and moved to the USA. the World War II. In 1941–1942 he served and after 1969 as a professional writer. Janáček and Antonín Dvořák. on a school boat UD-4 in Kiel, Germany. The gravestone, bearing the motto Licht! The gravestone was made by Ivan Ru- His remains, along with the cultural monu- Liebe! Leben! by Herder, was made by ller, the portrait bust was created by ment gravestone, were moved from Brno architect František Kalivoda. Miloš Vlček. City Cemetry in 1893.

Group 104, grave No. 479 Group 58, grave No. 71–73 Group 25e, grave No. 1 Group 28, grave No. 40–41 20 21 Zora Šemberová Jaroslav Štěpánek Kamila Tálská Karel Vaněk

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* 13. 3. 1913 Vyškov * 16. 5. 1905 Kladno-Kročehlavy * 24. 6. 1884 Vyškov * 7. 5. 1869 Kostelec nad Černými Lesy † 9. 10. 2012 Adelaide (AU) † 5. 3. 1970 Znojmo † 30. 11. 1941 Brno † 23. 2. 1924 Brno

Dance artist, pedagogue. She danced Violinist. After his studies at the Pra- Fedora Bartošová, married name Lavická, Politician. Before the World War I he Juliet in the world premiere of the ballet gue Conservatory of Music he worked pseudonym Kamila Tálská. Poet, librettist, was deputy in the Moravian Diet and “Romeo and Juliet” by Sergei Prokofiev, in Bratislava, Moravská Ostrava and Ko- and teacher; Co-author of the libretto for deputy in the Imperial Council for the connected her dance art with the Brno šice. He came to Brno Radio before the Janáček’s opera Destiny. She studied at Czechoslovak social democratic party. National Theatre, later she was employed World War II and worked here until reti- the Brno Teacher Training College, pub- He participated in domestic resistance in the Prague National Theatre. As a dance rement. As an outstanding and popular lished poetry and short prose pieces in during the World War I and as a mem- pedagogue she educated many personali- violinist he also continued his own public the Lidové noviny newspaper. Bartošová ber of the Moravian National Committee ties of Czech ballet and Czech dance sce- concert activity. lived on Klášterní Square in Brno, in the he headed the land administration ne. She emigrated to Australia in 1968 and same building as the Janáček family. In in late October 1918. After emergence joined the social life of her compatriots, The sandstone gravestone in the form November 1903 Janáček asked Bartošo- of the Czechoslovak Republic he be- acted as a pedagogue at the university of a violin was made by Vincenc Havel, vá to look at his prose material for the came the first historically known Czech in Adelaide. The gravestone was created the portrait sculpture was created by opera Destiny and put it into verse. The Mayor of Brno. by atelier Vochta. the artist’s wife Nina Štěpánková. The gra- composer regarded her libretto as a first vestone is protected as a monument. draught, and made significant changes. The gravestone is protected as Neither Janáček nor Bartošová lived to a monument. see the opera performed on stage. Group H5e, grave No. 4 Group 25e, grave No. 24 Group 106, grave No. 8–9 Group 25e, grave No. 19 22 TIC BRNO ← Jindřich Blažej Wawra GO TO BRNO.cz

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Publisher: TIC BRNO, p. o. † 25. 5. 1887 Baden u Vídně (AT) † 27. 11. 1873 Brno Text: Miroslava Menšíková and Petr Vachůt, Brno City Museum, Internet Encyclopaedia of the History of Brno Explorer, botanist, ship surgeon. He descen- ded from a wealthy miller’s family, but he Translation: Jana Klíčová personally did no business. After his medi- cine studies in Vienna, between 1856 and Photo: Muzeum města Brna 1879, he took part in several transoceanic (Miloš Strnad), Pocket media s.r.o. cruises as a ship surgeon. During these (Roman Prachař) journeys he was actively engaged in co- The project was realized with llecting of botanical and ethnographic financial support of Brno Municipality, material, and as the first Czech explorer Brno-Centre District and the South he made photographic documentation Moravian Region. of his discoveries. His collection is currently stored in the Náprstek Museum in Prague. TIC BRNO is a public-benefit corporation and is financially supported by the statutory city of Brno. The family tomb is protected as a monument. 2017

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