The Czechs, or the Czech people, are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
The Czech Academy of Sciences was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and the Emperor Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Sciences, Literature and Arts. The academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic. It conducts both fundamental and strategic applied research.
The Institute of the Czech Language is a scientific institution dedicated to the study of the Czech language. It is one of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Its headquarters are in Prague and it has a branch in Brno.
Lubor Niederle was a Czech archeologist, anthropologist and ethnographer. He is seen as one of the founders of modern archeology in Czech lands.
Czech culture has been shaped by the nation's geographical position in the middle of Europe, the Slavic ethnicity of Czechs, influences from its neighbors, political and social changes, wars and times of peace.
Jaroslav (Jarik) Nešetřil is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics, graph theory, algebra, posets, computer science.
Gabriela Dudeková is a Slovak historian.
Jaroslav Josef Polivka, Czech structural engineer who collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright between 1946 and 1959.
Mira Nábělková is a Slovak linguist.
Cosy Dens is a 1999 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is loosely based on the novel Hovno Hoří by Petr Šabach. It was voted the best Czech film by Reflex magazine in 2011.
Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is a research institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
The Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is a scientific institute headquartered at the Ondřejov Observatory, roughly 35 km southeast of Prague, Czech Republic.
Jiří Pernes is a Czech historian.
Ivan Kamenec is a Slovak historian.
Prof. PhDr. Zuzana Beňušková, CSc. is a Slovak ethnologist, ethnographer, cultural and social anthropologist. She is a professor of ethnology at University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. Her fields of research are ethnic minorities, social relations, customs, cultural regions of Slovakia and history of ethnology.
Jiří Šitler is a Czech diplomat and historian. Since September 15th, 2022, he is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic in Vienna, Austria.
Pavla Vošahlíková is a Czech historian. Her specialization is the history of Czech in 19th and the first half of the 20th century. In 1974 she defended her PhD thesis on the Charles University in Prague. She is member of the Department of Biographical Studies of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Jiří Velemínský was a pioneering Czech plant geneticist. He was a founding member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and held many high positions in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Ignác Jan Hanuš or, in German, Ignaz Johann Hanusch was a Czech philosopher and librarian.
Jindřich Honzl was a Czech theatre theorist, film and theatre director and pedagogue who was a leading representative of Czech modern theater.
