Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

She was from Prague.

Ambros studied at the University of Prague and was well-educated in music and the arts, which were his abiding passion.

Ambros was professor of the history of music at Prague from 1869 to 1871.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

His father was a rich and independent ruler of the Zličan princedom that rivaled Prague ( see Slavník's dynasty ).

John had his officials sell indulgences, a controversial practice that was protested in various parts of Europe, for instance by the followers of Jan Hus in Prague.

In addition, when Lorenzo Da Ponte was in Prague preparing the production of Mozart's setting of his Don Giovanni, the poet was ordered back to Vienna for a royal wedding for which Salieri's Axur, re d ' Ormus would be performed.

It was subsequently acquired by the Emperor Rudolf II and taken to Prague.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

The army was involved in a number of border skirmishes from 1948 to 1952, repulsing several Greek attacks, and took part in the suppression of the Prague spring events.

Karmal survived this purge, probably due to his contacts with the Soviets, and was sent to exile in Prague.

This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

The ČSLA offered no resistance to the invasion mounted by the Soviets in 1968 in reaction to the " Prague Spring ", and was extensively reorganized by the Soviets following the re-imposition of communist rule in Prague.

More problematic is that between 2004 and 2006 he was an executive director of a lobbying company Dutko Worldwide Prague.

In 1835 started to work at the Prague Polytechnic ( now Czech Technical University ), where he was appointed in 1841.

Doppler's research in Prague was interrupted by the revolutionary incidents of March 1848, when he fled to Vienna.

The only indication is communicated by the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, who stated that the Bohemian princess at the time of her marriage with Mieszko I was an old woman.

After the Great War, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language, following a report by Nitobe Inazō, an official delegate of League of Nations during the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.

* The structuralist functionalism of the Prague school, was the earliest functionalist framework developed in the 1920s.

As the status of Saint Louis grew amongst Europe's aristocracy, the influence of his famous chapel also extended beyond France, with important copies at Karlštejn Castle near Prague ( c. 1360 ) and the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna ( consecrated 1449 ).

After his arrival in Italy in 1763, Mysliveček never left the country except for a visit to Prague in 1767-68, a short visit to Vienna in 1773, and an extended stay in Munich between December 1776 and April 1778.

During the Protestant Reformation, Neuzelle with its extended possessions remained Catholic, even after the Lutheran Electorate of Saxony had acquired the Lusatias by the 1635 Peace of Prague.

The state-owned operator České dráhy also serves line Prague – Ostrava ( with some connections extended to Bohumín ) with Pendolino trainsets under designation " SuperCity ", which conforms to IC standard.

In 2008 ABS Jets was certified as a flight support provider and extended its services by becoming an authorized handling agent at Prague Ruzyně Airport.

In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the 16th century.

52 rifle is used as ceremonial weapon by Prague Castle Guard.

It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick ( 1851 – 1924 ), a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague.

* 1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula – Oder Offensive.

Moshe Idel comments, " This tradition in one form or another is the blueprint of the later legend of the creation of the Golem by Eliayahu's famous contemporary R. Yehudah Leow of Prague.

The story was repeated in Galerie der Sippurim ( 1847 ), an influential collection of Jewish tales published by Wolf Pascheles of Prague.

All these early accounts of the Golem of Prague are in German by Jewish writers.

Rosenberg published Niflaos Maharal: Ha Golem Al Prague ( Wonders of the Maharal: The Golem of Prague ) ( Warsaw, 1909 ) which purported to be an eyewitness account by the Maharal's son-in-law, who had helped to create the Golem.

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.

* 1968: The Prague Spring crushed by Soviet tanks.

Thousands of East Germans also tried to reach the West by staging sit-ins at West German diplomatic facilities in other East European capitals, most notably in Prague.

In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

A month later, Tatra CEO Ronald Adams told The Prague Post Tatra could return to producing passenger cars, saying ' we would not come back to compete with the large automobile mass producers such as Volkswagen, Škoda, Toyota etc.

Prague attracts large amounts of foreign ( mostly from Germany, Russia, Poland, United States, Israel and United Kingdom )</ small > tourists because of low costs associated with nightlife.

A Siddur dated 1512 from Prague displays a large hexagram on the cover with the phrase, " He will merit to bestow a bountiful gift on anyone who grasps the Shield of David.

In the first Hebrew prayer book, printed in Prague in 1512, a large Shield of David appears on the cover.

Wallenstein proved an able administrator of the duchy and also sent a large representation to Prague to emphasize his nobility.

The Czech National Museum produced a large exhibition about Wallenstein at the Wallenstein Palace in Prague ( current seat of Senate ) from 15 November 2007 till 15 February 2008.

Klaus was born in Prague during the Nazi occupation, and grew up in the large ( up to 1948 middle-class ) Vinohrady neighborhood.

A selection of Prague postmarked stamps from 1850 – 1890 with mainly socked on the nose cancels ; some cancels are too large to fit on the stamp

Many Prague Metro stations are quite large, with several entrances spaced relatively far apart.

His main goal was to set up an archbishopric in Prague and create a large state subject only to the Holy Roman Empire.

As a result, Bevern captured large quantities of Austrian supplies and could continue his march on Prague.

In 1933 approximately 77 % of German Gentiles with Jewish ancestry were Protestant, the percentage dropped to 66 % in the 1939 census, after the annexations of 1938 ( due in particular to the acquisition of Vienna and Prague, with their relatively large and well-established Catholic populations of Jewish descent ).

A palette from the Naprstek Museum in Prague shows an Indo-Parthian king seated crossed-legged on a large sofa, surrounded by two attendants also in Parthian dress.

In 1896, the family moved to Davle, a beautiful place on the riverside of Vltava, about 12 miles south of Prague, where they lived in a large country-house.

After 1526, when the Habsburgs became rulers of the kingdom and the Turks seized large parts of the kingdom, the palatine, as the vice-regent ( viceroy ), had his seat outside Royal Hungary in Prague and later in Vienna.

The polka, which first appeared in Prague in 1837, continued to be a popular form of dance music through the 20th century, especially in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and areas of the United States with a large population of central-European descent.

Like Prague or Budapest, Zagreb has a Central European feel to it, with a large and well-preserved old town on the hill and a 19th-century city center.

A large riot occurred in 2008 in Prague prior to the Sparta Prague-Dinamo match.

Later, a large group ( numbering in the thousands ) of Primary Tekkamen is seen marching on the destroyed city of Prague at Dead's behest.

He designed a large number of public and private buildings in Turin, including the palaces of the Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy ( as well as his sister ( Louise Christine of Savoy ), the Royal Church of San Lorenzo ( 1666 – 1680 ), most of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud ( housing the Shroud of Turin, 1668, incorporating beginnings by Carlo di Castellamonte ), the Palazzo Carignano ( 1679 – 85 ), the Castle of Racconigi and many other public and ecclesiastical buildings at Modena, Messina, Verona, Vienna, Prague, Lisbon, and Paris.

Two very large surviving royal halls are Westminster Hall and the Wenceslas Hall in Prague Castle.

Mr. Brouček ( translated as “ Mr. Beetle ” ( literally little beetle )) is a Philistine landlord in Prague who experiences a series of fantastic events as he is swept away ( due in large part to excessive drinking ) first to the moon and then to 15th-century Prague, during the Hussite uprising against the Holy Roman Empire in 1420 ( see Synopsis ).

In 1927, Sutnar became the head of publication design for a large publisher in Prague.