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Residence of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and the establishment of the museum

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

Luzany after Hlávka's death occurred in accordance with the wording of his last will seat of the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts ; so that the role of new hosts succeeded lawyer Antonín Randa, mineralogist Karel Vrba , philologist Josef Zubatý, composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster and historian Josef Šusta .The chapter presents all these personalities in short biographical sketches. It also discusses the fate Lužan after World War II , when it was saved from destruction plan advocated by Bohumil Němec create a museum of the 19th century .