Rudolf II desired to unify Christendom in the Empire and tried to take a tolerant stance on religious issues. Though he was an ineffectual ruler, he had a love for academics that helped spur the Scientific Revolution. He was known as “the greatest art patron in the world,” and philosophers, painters, alchemists, astronomers, architects, and mathematicians came to Prague to work under his patronage.
Milena Jesenska (10 August 1896 - 17 May 1944)
Mother's Day in Czechia: Charlotte Masaryk
Foundation of Czechoslovakia
Kafkaesque: an Author’s Legacy in One Word
It would be difficult to find a more suitable word to characterize modern people’s cosmic predicament than “Kafkaesque”. The etymology of the word isn’t hard to decipher, which is untrue of the worlds created by the man immortalized by the adjective. Like many great artists, Kafka’s work was largely undiscovered until after his death.