Abstract
Karel Vaníček was significantly influenced by personal conversations with Tyrš. He gradually became a philosopher who succumbed to the ideas of raising the body and spirit of the Czech nation, as Tyrš formulated on the principles of Greek "kalokagathia" or "hardening of body and spirit".
Karel was at first a trainer in Sokol Smíchov. Later, he became a driving force in the "The Sages" educational group in Smíchov.
In 1894 he published twenty "Sokol Epistles", which gradually grew to 60 chapters. They became a kind of "Sokol gospel".
In 1912, he drafted a proposal for the construction of the Sokol Museum. His philosophy is characterized by words Exercise is the best means of strengthening the body, to keep it healthy.
The opposite of toughness is delicacy, a seedbed of all kinds of diseases,... Karel Vaníček also encouraged the construction of the Sokol headquarters - Tyrš House in Prague.
He died unexpectedly on a walk in Divoká Šárka in Prague on June 24, 1926.