Czechs

The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech [ˈtʃɛx] , singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic^[17] in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

Czech: Češi

1,462,000^[3]

603,000^[4]

104,580^[5]

45,711–89,000^[6]^[7]^[4]

65,000^[4]

45,000^[8]

40,000^[9]

23,000^[10]

16,000^[10]

15,000^[11]

11,000^[4]

8,000^[4]

5,000^[12]

2,477^[13]

736^[14]

5,917-11,000

Ethnic Czechs were called Bohemians in English until the early 20th century,^[18] referring to the former name of their country, Bohemia, which in turn was adapted from the late Iron Age tribe of Celtic Boii. During the Migration Period, West Slavic tribes settled in the area, "assimilated the remaining Celtic and Germanic populations", and formed a principality in the 9th century, which was initially part of Great Moravia, in form of Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia, the predecessors of the modern republic.

The Czech diaspora is found in notable numbers in the United States, Canada, Israel, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Russia, Argentina, Romania and Brazil, among others.

Chemistry – (Nobel Prize 1959), Otto Wichterle, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Antonín Holý

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Biology – , Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Carl Borivoj Presl, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Karel Domin, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Friedrich von Berchtold, Ferdinand Stoliczka, Wenceslas Bojer, Alberto Vojtěch Frič, August Carl Joseph Corda

Johann Gregor Mendel

Mathematics – , Eduard Čech, Miroslav Katětov, Petr Vopěnka, Václav Chvátal, Otakar Borůvka, Vojtěch Jarník, Kurt Gödel

Bernard Bolzano

Physics and engineering – , František Běhounek, Jan Marek Marci, Josef Ressel, František Křižík, Vincenc Strouhal, Prokop Diviš, František Josef Gerstner, Ernst Mach

Ignaz von Born

Astronomy – , Antonín Bečvář

Antonín Mrkos

Astronautics –

Vladimír Remek

Philology – , Josef Dobrovský, Josef Jungmann, Vilém Mathesius, Julius Pokorny, René Wellek, Jan Mukařovský

Bedřich Hrozný

Medicine – , Joseph Škoda, Jan Janský

Carl von Rokitansky

Archeology – , Lubor Niederle, Karel Absolon, Miroslav Verner

Pavel Pavel

Anthropology and ethnography – , Emil Holub, Alois Musil

Aleš Hrdlička

History – , Bohuslav Balbín, Konstantin Jireček, Max Dvořák, Miroslav Hroch

František Palacký

Philosophy – , Jan Patočka, Karel Kosík, Egon Bondy, Ladislav Klíma

Edmund Husserl

Psychology – , Stanislav Grof, Sigmund Freud

Max Wertheimer

Theology – , Jerome of Prague, Petr Chelčický, Jan Rokycana, Tomáš Špidlík, Tomáš Halík

Jan Hus

Modern occultism –

Franz Bardon

Pedagogy –

Jan Amos Komenský

Folklorists – , Karel Jaromír Erben

František Ladislav Čelakovský

Literary theory – , Pavel Janáček

Karel Teige

List of Czechs

The Greatest Czech

List of Bohemian monarchs

List of prime ministers of the Czech Republic

List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia

List of presidents of Czechoslovakia

List of presidents of the Czech Republic

Agnew, Hugh (2004). . Hoover Press. ISBN 978-0-8179-4492-6.

The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown

Berger, Tilman (July 2003). "Slovaks in Czechia—Czechs in Slovakia". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2003 (162). :10.1515/ijsl.2003.035.

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Pánek, Jaroslav (2009). . Charles University. ISBN 978-80-246-1645-2.

A History of the Czech Lands

King, Jeremy (2005). . Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12234-2.

Budweisers Into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848–1948

Wiskemann, Elizabeth (1967). Czechs & Germans: a study of the struggle in the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. Royal Institute of International Affairs; Macmillan.

Mastny, Vojtech (1971). The Czechs under Nazi Rule. Columbia University Press.

Hermann, Adolf Hanus (1975). A History of the Czechs. Lane, Allen.

Vyšný, Paul (1977). . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-21230-4.

Neo-Slavism and the Czechs 1898–1914

(2004). "From ethnic group toward the modern nation: the Czech case". Nations and Nationalism. 10 (1–2): 95–107. doi:10.1111/j.1354-5078.2004.00157.x.

Hroch, Miroslav

(1996). The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation: National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55469-5.

Holy, Ladislav

Official Czech website, links to multiple articles regarding the Czech people.

Wolfgang Kaufmann,