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On the Subject of Antonín Dvofiák’s Ancestors
On the Subject of Antonín Dvofiák’s Ancestors*
Jifií Vichta
The present article follows upon the work of Jan Miroslav Kvût and Jifií Musil concerning ancestors
of the Czech composer Antonín Dvofiák and corrects some mistaken conclusions they reached.
Attention is devoted primarily to ancestors of Dvofiák’s grandfather on his mother’s side, Josef
Zdenûk, whose parents – and therefore other ancestors as well – were wrongly identified by the
above-mentioned researchers. It turns out that some of Dvofiák’s ancestors came from Bystfiice
(Wistritz), a village in Northern Bohemia near Teplice which at that time had mainly a German
population. This is where the earliest determined ancestors of Antonín Dvofiák lived, in the 17th
century. Appended to the article is a list of all known ancestors of Dvofiák’s grandfather Josef Zdenûk
giving dates of births, deaths, and marriages.
Much attention has been devoted in the past to the ancestors of the composer
Antonín Dvořák. Extensive research in registers of births, deaths and marriages
was carried out by Jan Miroslav Květ during preparations for his book on the
composer’s youth.1 Květ focused mainly on the line of the Dvořák family from
Třeboradice, from which came Antonín’s grandfather Jan Dvořák (8 May 1764
Třeboradice – 25 November 1842 Nelahozeves). He also treated, though only
superficially, the ancestors of the composer’s mother Anna Zdeňková. Květ’s
work was recently continued by Jiří Musil in several genealogical studies focused
mainly on ancestors of Antonín Dvořák on his mother’s side – the Zdeněk and
Chládek families from the region of Zlonice.2 In both cases Musil went back to the
17th century. The objective of this article is not to repeat information, names and
dates that have already been published, but to supplement them and rectify some
errors committed by both researchers. We shall focus on the ancestors of
Dvořák’s grandfather Josef Zdeněk.
Let us recall that Antonín Dvořák was the eldest son of František Dvořák,
a master butcher (19 September 1814 Dřínov – 28 March 1894 Velvary) and his
wife Anna, née Zdeňková (7 February 1820 Uhy – 15 December 1882 Kladno).
Most ancestors of František Dvořák came from villages north of Prague
(Třeboradice, Kbely, Dřínov, Odolena Voda, and others), but some came from
Netvořice in the Benešov region where his grandfather Josef Bobek, a wheel
wright, was born. On 26 November 1769 this Josef Bobek married Marie Anna,
a daughter of Václav Kubovic, and settled in Dřínov near Veltrusy.3 The ancestors
*
A Czech version of this article – K předkům Antonína Dvořáka – was published in: Genealogické
a heraldické listy, vol. 4, 2006, pp. 2–11.
1
KVĚT, Jan Miroslav: Mládí Antonína Dvořáka, Prague 1943. Květ dealt with the Dvořák family also
in the article Venkovský původ skladatele Ant. Dvořáka, in: Časopis pro dějiny venkova, vol. XXVI,
1939, no. 2, pp. 65–72.
2
MUSIL, Jiří: K původu Antonína Dvořáka, in: Zpravodaj klubu historiografie (Heraldika a genealogie
XVIII–2), 1985, pp. 173–184; MUSIL, Jiří: Neznámé rodové vztahy Antonína Dvořáka, in: Hudební
věda, vol. 23, 1986, no. 3, pp. 217–237; MUSIL, Jiří: Glosy o předcích Antonína Dvořáka, in: Hudební
věda, vol. 27, 1990, no. 1, pp. 32–38; MUSIL, Jiří: O předcích Antonína Dvořáka, in: Listy Genealogické
a heraldické společnosti v Praze, vol. 11, 1991, no. 3–4, pp. 25–38.
3
Státní oblastní archiv v Praze (SOA Praha), Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages,
Roman Catholic parish office of Odolena Voda, inventory no. 4, p. 16. In the literature, the surname
© Academia, Praha 2007
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of Anna Zdeňková, on the other hand, came from areas north of Slaný – mainly
from the vicinities of Zlonice and Velvary. As we shall see, some of them came
also from the German-speaking border region in Northern Bohemia.
The parents of Anna Zdeňková – Josef Zdeněk and Marie Chládková – were
married on 24 September 1816 in the parish church of the Assumption of Our
Lady in Zlonice.4 According to the entry in the register of births, deaths and
marriages the groom was 33 and the bride 34, but these ages were only estimated,
in the instance of Marie Chládková very inaccurately. She was actually born in
building no. 28 in Beřovice on 30 March 1777,5 and at the time of the wedding
was thus 39. This wedlock legitimised their illegitimate son František who was
already almost 3 years old.
Josef Zdeněk was a son of a cottager of the same name from building no. 7
in Hospozín. Květ gave the date of his birth incorrectly, making him eight years
older. It is true that a son named Josef was born to a farm labourer Josef Zdeněk
and his wife Dorota in building no. 7 in Hospozín in February 1775, but he died
soon after birth. Květ’s mistake was rectified by Musil who found out that Mr. and
Mrs. Zdeněk lived for several years after 1781 in the nearby village of Radešín,
where on 1 March 1783 a son was born to them to whom they again gave the
name Josef.6 Thus, we see that his age was stated correctly in the record of his
marriage.
Much information has already been published on the composer’s grandfather
Josef Zdeněk and his family, with the exception however of the date and place of
his death. According to Musil’s estimate, he died after 1856 in Uhy where he
worked as a steward. Actually he died in Zlonice, in the hospital (špitál) in
building no. 20, on 9 March 1857 which was soon after his 74th birthday.7 His
grandson Antonín Dvořák could not be with him in his dying days, because
several months earlier he had left Zlonice for an exchange residence in Horní
Kamenice, lying near Česká Kamenice (and now incorporated into that town
close to the northern edge of Bohemia).8
of Marie Anna’s father can be found as Kuba, however it actually was Kubovic. Members of the
Kubovic family still lived in the Kralupy area in the early 20th century.
4
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Zlonice, inventory no. 7, pp. 14–15.
5
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Zlonice, inventory no. 3, p. 16.
6
MUSIL: K původu…, p. 230; MUSIL: O předcích…, p. 30.
7
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Zlonice, inventory no. 19, pp. 226–227.
8
BEVERIDGE, David: Nové poznatky o mládí Antonína Dvořáka. Bydliště A. Dvořáka a jeho rodičů,
in: Hudební věda, vol. 32, 1995, no. 4, p. 402 (updated English version forthcoming in the British
journal Czech Music), citing and confirming information from KVĚT, Jan Miroslav: Antonín Dvořák
v České Kamenici, in: Hudební rozhledy, vol. 11, 1958, pp. 942–943 and KURKA, Jiří: Pobyt Antonína
Dvořáka v České Kamenici, in: Z minulosti Děčínska II, Děčín 1974, ed. Helena Smíšková, p. 346.
Antonín Dvořák lived in Zlonice from 1853 to 1856. On the subject of the Dvořák family’s residence
in Zlonice most recently KRAJNÍK, Stanislav: Antonín Dvořák a náš kraj, Kladno 1997, in particular
pp. 8–17, and also BEVERIDGE, Nové poznatky..., pp. 399–408. It is traditionally thought that Antonín
Dvořák learnt the butcher’s craft in Zlonice. The proof would be the certificate of apprenticeship
found in the 1930s (today missing) which actually was clearly a modern forgery. There is no other
evidence of Dvořák’s apprenticeship as a butcher. This myth has been rebutted beyond doubt by
BURGHAUSER, Jarmil: K jedné z dvořákovských legend, in: Časopis Národního muzea, řada historická,
vol. 156, 1987, no. 1–2, pp. 85–95.
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Thus we now know the basic dates of Dvořák’s grandfather Josef Zdeněk.
Let us focus on the composer’s great-grandfather Josef Zdeněk senior. The date of
his death is indisputable – he died at an old age on 5 March 1832 of “contagious
diarrhea” in his house, building no. 7 in Hospozín.9 He was very likely a victim of
an epidemic of cholera – a dangerous diarrheic disease – that occurred at that
time. Květ determined the date of his birth as 9 July 1750, when a Josef was
christened in the church in Kmetiněves as the first-born son of Jan and Rozálie
Zdeněk from Hospozín.10 This date accepted without question Musil, who
continued the search for ancestors of this Josef Zdeněk further back into the past.
Thus he found Jan Váňa, living in the 17th century in Vraný, and designated him
as the oldest discovered ancestor of Antonín Dvořák.11 However, neither of the
two researchers produced sufficient evidence that Dvořák’s great-grandfather
Josef Zdeněk was a son of Jan Zdeněk from Hospozín. They were unable to find
a record of his marriage with Dorota, so it was presumed the wedding was held in
the place of the bride’s residence, whereas Josef Zdeněk came from Hospozín.
And as this was the only child born prior to 1760 in Hospozín bearing this name
that did not die at an early age, the Josef Zdeněk christened on 9 July 1750
remained the sole candidate for this great-grandfather of Antonín Dvořák. Not
even the fact that his father Jan Zdeněk demonstrably lived in a different building
in Hospozín (no. 22) than Dvořák’s great-grandfather (no. 7) dissuaded the two
authors from their belief. Only the missing record of the marriage of Josef Zdeněk
with Dorota before 1775 could resolve the issue. As the Kmetiněves parish
registers do not contain such a record, it was necessary to search in registers of
surrounding parishes.
A record of the marriage of a couple bearing the above-mentioned names
was found in the registers of the nearby village of Vraný, where Josef Zdeněk and
Dorota Laglerová entered into marriage on 1 November 1772.12 Witnesses to the
wedding ceremony were Jan and Matěj Zdeněk from Hospozín, probably elder
brothers of the groom. This Josef was a son of Jiří Zdeněk from Horní Kamenice
(east of Vraný and northwest of Zlonice, not to be confused with the abovementioned Horní Kamenice where Antonín Dvořák lived in 1856–57); Dorota was
a daughter of Jakub Lagler from Hospozín. The wedding reception took place in
building no. 1 in Horní Kamenice, i.e. on the farm of Karel Brejník where the
Zdeněk family lived as farm labourers. Were these newlyweds direct ancestors of
Antonín Dvořák? If so, the composer’s great-great-grandfather would be not Jan
Zdeněk from Hospozín but rather Jiří Zdeněk from Horní Kamenice. We shall
investigate this option. Actually we cannot rule out the possibility that there were
two married couples of the same surname and first names living in the Zlonice
dominion at this time. A reliable answer is provided by the Zlonice dominion
land register with records relating to the village of Hospozín. The entry dated
9
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 16, p. 103.
10
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 3, p. 20.
11
MUSIL: Glosy…, pp. 32–33; MUSIL: O předcích…, p. 27.
12
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Vraný, inventory no. 3, p. 229. As the name of the bride’s father the entry gives Lagner, but
comparison with other records shows the correct form to be Lagler.
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March 1776 begins with: “Registry of Josef and Dorota Zdeněk, husband and wife
living in the cottage formerly belonging to the late Jakub Lagler, father of Dorota
Zdeňková, building no. 7 on the lord’s land in the village of Hospozín.”13 Since we
know for sure that the great-grandparents of Antonín Dvořák lived and died in the
house in question, this corroborates the fact that the above-mentioned record of
marriage from Vraný pertains to them and that the Josef Zdeněk born in 1750 in
Hospozín was a false lead.
Dvořák’s great-great-grandfather Jakub Lagler, a son of the local butcher and
tavern keeper Jan Pavel Lagler and his spouse Marie, became the owner of the
cottage bearing no. 7 in Hospozín probably shortly after the middle of the 18th
century. He was christened on 6 July 1726 in the Saint Wenceslas church in
Kmetiněves.14 He and his wife Alžběta Karlová, whom he married on 8 February
1752 in Velvary,15 had two daughters – Dorota (* 30 December 1753) and Marie
(* 31 March 1756).16 According to the marriage record Alžběta was a daughter of
Vilém Karel, and the village of Černuc was given as her place of residence.
However, she was not born there. The record also mentions the church of Saint
Adalbert in Počaply near Litoměřice in reference to the bride. The hypothesis
that she was born in this parish turns out to be erroneous as well. Nonetheless,
the parish registers of the Počaply parish church offer an important clue. On
18 November 1736 the local farmer Josef Karel, son of Vilém Karel, shepherd
from Brňany, married there Anna Karhanová from Travčice.17 It is highly probable
that the said Vilém Karel was also the father of Alžběta, married name Laglerová.
Two sons and four daughters were born to Vilém Karel and his wife Magdalena
between 1715 and 1728 in Brňany, but none of them was named Josef or Alžběta.
As a shepherd, Vilém Karel would surely have moved several times during his
life, and these two children were born in an unknown place of residence –
possibly in the area between Budyně nad Ohří and Litoměřice. However, we
cannot rule out that the priest making the record committed an error when
writing the first name and that Alžběta was actually born in Brňany.
On 2 July 1760, a year and a half after the premature death of Jakub Lagler,
his widow Alžběta married Tomáš Asten,18 a military veteran, who thus became
the new farmer and the stepfather of the two young Lagler daughters. Within
a year after the wedding, their only son Jan was born, but he died in infancy.
Soon thereafter Alžběta also died, and already on 24 July 1763 her widower
Tomáš Asten married Anna Křížová from Žižice.19 Nine-year-old Dorota and
seven-year-old Marie were thus raised by their stepfather and his second wife. In
October 1766 an agreement was concluded in the local administrative office of the
13
SOA Praha, Collection of land registers, OS Velvary, inventory no. 162, p. 468.
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 2, p. 25. He was christened as Jan Jakub.
15
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Velvary, inventory no. 20, p. 162.
16
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 3, p. 44 and 58.
17
SOA Litoměřice, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages from the Northern
Bohemia region, Roman Catholic parish office of Počaply, inventory no. L 117/2, p. 15.
18
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 3, p. 35. The registers often give his surname as Assen.
19
Ibidem, p. 45.
14
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nobility pursuant to which the cottage was bequeathed to the two girls in equal
shares. Tomáš Asten undertook “to maintain the cottage well and not to want
anything in exchange for the care”.20 However, he died less than two years later.
The first of the two daughters of Jakub Lagler to marry was the elder one,
Dorota. As has already been mentioned, the wedding reception was held in the
place of residence of the groom, probably because the bride’s parents as well as
her stepfather were dead and there was no one else to organise the event. The
groom Josef Zdeněk was also an orphan. In March 1776 the Zdeněk couple paid
fifty pieces of gold to Dorota’s younger sister Marie and became owners of the
house.21 Their further fate has already been described by Jiří Musil.22 Let us add
only that after the death of Josef Zdeněk in 1832 his son of the same name – the
grandfather of Antonín Dvořák – inherited building no. 7 in Hospozín. The
property settlement between the children was decided upon at the beginning of
1833, and Josef Zdeněk had to buy out his younger siblings Barbora Urxová,
Anna Sybová, Marie Plošová and Jan Zdeněk.23 At that time, however, he no
longer lived there since he worked as a steward in Uhy, some ten kilometres
away. So the house in Hospozín was inhabited by the family of his eldest son
František (1814–1890), who weaved in order to improve his income. František’s
aunt Anna and her husband Kašpar Syba also lived there as tenants.
The lines of Antonín Dvořák’s ancestors in Hospozín may be traced back to
the turn of the 17th and 18th century. Jan Pavel Lagler, the butcher and tavern
keeper mentioned above, settled there with Kateřina Schillerová after their
marriage on 20 September 1696 in Kmetiněves.24 Kateřina, however, is not among
Antonín Dvořák’s ancestors. She died sometime between 1715 and 1720, and Jan
Pavel Lagler soon married again, this time Marie, later the mother of Jakub
Lagler. Although neither registers of births, deaths and marriages nor the land
registers mention the place of origin of Jan Pavel Lagler, he was undoubtedly
born in the village of Bystřice, situated between Teplice and Dubí in the region of
the Ore Mountains (Krušné hory). The lords of Hospozín at that time (the Clary-Aldringen family) also owned the dominion of Teplice, and Jan Pavel Lagler is
sometimes designated in the registers of births, deaths, and marriages as
a subject of Teplice. Furthermore, his surname suggests German origin. The
oldest Kmetiněves register of births and marriages includes a record of the
marriage of a certain Jiří Lögler with Kateřina Gitzová from Hospozín on
1 October 1684.25 The groom’s place of origin is given as “Wistricio”, which
means the village of Bystřice near Teplice, called “Wistritz” in German.
Furthermore, a Jiří Lögler or Lagler, bricklayer, settled in Hospozín and even built
a house there (later designated as building no. 23). He died childless, and
a certain Josef Trnobranský received the land from the local nobility.
Subsequently, the local nobility accepted the inheritance claims of Lagler’s
20
SOA Praha, Collection of land registers, OS Velvary, inventory no. 162, p. 466.
Ibidem, p. 468.
MUSIL: O předcích…, p. 30.
23
SOA Praha, Collection of land registers, OS Velvary, inventory no. 163, pp. 22–23.
24
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 1, p. 345.
25
Ibidem, p. 338.
21
22
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nephews and nieces, i.e. the children of Jan Pavel Lagler.26 Therefore we know
that Jiří and Jan Pavel were brothers, and we may consider it highly probable that
Jan Pavel Lagler also came from Bystřice. However, was it really Bystřice near
Teplice? The answer is given in the affirmative by the Roll of Assessment (berní
rula), according to which a cottager Matouš Lagler and a carpenter Michal Legler
lived in this village shortly after the Thirty Years’ War.27
It remained only to find a record of the birth of Jan Pavel (Johann Paul)
Lagler in the registers of the parish of Novosedlice, to which the village of
Bystřice belonged. A child bearing this name was actually born there and was
christened on 23 June 1674.28 His parents were Matheus and Dorotha Lagler, and
their first-born son, christened on 25 March 1660, was the above-mentioned Jiří
(Georg).29 The oldest register of the Teplice deanery contains the record of their
marriage on 18 August 1658.30 One of the witnesses at the wedding was Michael
Lagler, possibly an uncle of the groom. Thanks to this record we also know the
names of the bride and groom’s parents. Matheus was a son of a cottager
Matheus Lagler, mentioned in the Roll of Assessment, and his wife Dorotha. The
bride’s parents were Thomas and Maria Horn. The dates of birth of these four
individuals fall into the period around 1600, and consequently they may be
considered the earliest ancestors of Antonín Dvořák identified so far.
Let us return from Northern Bohemia to the Zlonice region – to the village of
Horní Kamenice where Josef Zdeněk, Dvořák’s great-grandfather, was born on
21 March 1746 as the last of six children of Jiří Zdeněk and Anna, née Brenková.31
He came from a poor rural family. His father never owned any real estate – or at
least we have no information to that effect – and lived as a farm labourer.
Interestingly, Mr. and Mrs. Zdeněk did not die in Horní Kamenice, but in the early
spring of 1762 in Hospozín, where Josef would settle later on. Jiří Zdeněk died on
20 March before his 53rd birthday and his widow Anna soon thereafter on 24 April
at the age of 49.32 Their close links to Hospozín probably resulted from the fact
that Jiří’s relatives lived there and of course from the appurtenance to the
independent Hospozín farm estate. It was owned by the Clary-Aldringen noble
family, but in 1765 was purchased by the Kinský noble family which owned the
neighbouring dominion of Zlonice.33
Jiří Zdeněk and Anna Brenková entered into marriage on 31 January 1734 in
Vraný.34 They both came from Horní Kamenice. Anna, a daughter of Jan and
26
SOA Praha, Collection of land registers, OS Velvary, inventory no. 162, p. 1.
Berní rula. Generální rejstřík ke všem svazkům (vydaným i dosud nevydaným) berní ruly z roku
1654 doplněný (tam, kde se nedochovaly) o soupis poddaných z roku 1651 (compiled by Václav
Červený and Jarmila Červená), Prague 2003, p. 976 and 995.
28
SOA Litoměřice, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages from the Northern
Bohemia region, Roman Catholic parish office of Novosedlice, inventory no. L 128/1, p. 398.
29
SOA Litoměřice, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages from the Northern
Bohemia region, Roman Catholic parish office of Teplice-deanery, inventory no. 162/1, p. 422.
30
Ibidem, p. 529.
31
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Vraný, inventory no. 2, p. 351.
32
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Kmetiněves, inventory no. 3, p. 55 and 57.
33
SOMMER, Johann Gottfried: Das Königrech Böhmen XIII., Rakonitzer Kreis, Prague 1845, p. 103.
34
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Vraný, inventory no. 2, p. 608.
27
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Dorota Brenk, was christened on 2 March 1713.35 However, we find no other
mention of the surname Brenk in indexes of Vraný registers of births, deaths and
marriages, nor does it appear in the surrounding area. Jiří Zdeněk, christened on
23 March 1709,36 was a son of Matouš Zdeněk and his first wife Dorota, née
Hrachová. His grandparents Matěj and Ludmila Zdeněk from Horní Kamenice
were also ancestors of the Josef Zdeněk born in 1750 in Hospozín – “the false
great-grandfather” of Antonín Dvořák. We may once again refer to Jiří Musil, who
dealt in considerable detail with Matěj Zdeněk as well as his son Matouš. Among
other things, Musil proves that their descendants included other important
persons of Czech culture – the poet and writer Josef Václav Frič and the film
director Martin Frič.37 However, some doubts still remain. Although we know that
their ancestor Matěj Frič from Vrbice married Anna Zdeňková from Horní
Kamenice on 15 November 1735 in Vraný,38 it remains unclear whether she was
a daughter of Matouš Zdeněk. The marriage record does not contain the name of
her father, and a daughter by the name of Anna was born in the early 18th century
not only to Matouš Zdeněk but also to other people of the same surname from
Horní Kamenice. Nonetheless, the kinship of the Frič and Zdeněk families is
certain.
The tavern keeper Matěj Zdeněk, who may be considered the founder of the
Zdeněk family, is mentioned in Horní Kamenice for the first time in 1673. We can
go even further back into the past in tracing the ancestors of Dorota Hrachová,
the wife of his son Matouš. Although at the time of their wedding on 23 October
1706 in Velvary39 she allegedly lived in Černuc, she was born in Kmetiněves and
was christened there in the local church on 5 February 1685.40 She was the first
child of Václav Hrach from Kmetiněves and Kateřina, née Košťálová from Černuc,
wedded on 23 November 1683 in Velvary.41 Václav Hrach was only nineteen at the
time of the wedding, as he was christened in Zlonice on 14 March 1664.42 His
parents were the Kmetiněves village mayor Florian Hrach and his wife Mariana,
who entered into marriage on 28 October 1653 in Velvary.43 This is the oldest
precise date known so far concerning any of Dvořák’s ancestors. Mariana came
from the area of Roudnice nad Labem, specifically from the village of Kleneč very
close to the mountain Říp. We do not know her surname, because the priest
making the record did not write it into the register; it is possible she had no
surname at all.
Given in the appendix are the names of ancestors of Dvořák’s grandfather
Josef Zdeněk going back six generations, with dates of births, deaths, and
marriages. This list obviously is not exhaustive, and its possible completion may
be a challenge for further research. The same applies to the fate of Josef Zdeněk,
35
Ibidem, p. 81.
Ibidem, p. 57.
37
MUSIL: Glosy…, p. 34; MUSIL: O předcích…, p. 28.
38
SOA Praha, Collection of registers of births, deaths and marriages, Roman Catholic parish office
of Vraný, inventory no. 2, p. 614.
39
SOA Praha, Collection of parish registers, Roman Catholic parish Velvary, vol. 20, p. 60.
40
SOA Praha, Collection of parish registers, Roman Catholic parish Kmetiněves, vol. 1, p. 71.
41
SOA Praha, Collection of parish registers, Roman Catholic parish Velvary, vol. 20, p. 24.
42
SOA Praha, Collection of parish registers, Roman Catholic parish Zlonice, vol. 1, p. 23.
43
SOA Praha, Collection of parish registers, Roman Catholic parish Velvary, vol. 1, p. 141.
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born in 1750, who left his native Hospozín for an unknown destination and
would surely never have guessed that he would some day be considered greatgrandfather of one of the greatest composers of all time.
(English translation Martin Nejedlý)
Address: Jiří Vichta, K Remízku 1026, CZ-149 00 Praha 4 – Chodov
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Appendix
Ancestors of Antonín Dvořák’s Grandfather Josef Zdeněk
I. GENERATION
1.
Josef ZDENĚK, steward
* 1 March 1783 Radešín 44
† 9 March 1857 Zlonice 20
II. GENERATION
2.
3.
Josef ZDENĚK, farm labourer, thresher, cottager
* 21 March 1746 Horní Kamenice
† 5 March 1832 Hospozín 7
oo 1 November 1772 Vraný
Dorota LAGLEROVÁ
* 30 December 1753 Hospozín
† 5 February 1821 Hospozín 7
III. GENERATION
4.
5.
6.
7.
Jiří ZDENĚK, farm labourer
* 23 April 1709 Horní Kamenice
† 20 March 1762 Hospozín
oo 31 January 1734 Vraný
Anna BRENKOVÁ
* 2 March 1713 Horní Kamenice
† 24 April 1762 Hospozín
Jakub LAGLER, cottager
* 6 July 1726 Hospozín
† 6 January 1759 Hospozín
oo 8 February 1752 Velvary
Alžběta KARLOVÁ
* ca. 1730
† 1761–1763
On the Subject of Antonín Dvofiák’s Ancestors
IV. GENERATION
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Matouš ZDENĚK
* 18 August 1685 Horní Kamenice
† 21 July 1733 Horní Kamenice
oo 23 October 1706 Velvary
Dorota HRACHOVÁ
* 5 February 1685 Kmetiněves
† 22 November 1719 Horní Kamenice
Jan BRENK
Dorota
Johann Paul (Jan Pavel) LAGLER, butcher, tavern keeper
* 23 June 1674 Bystřice
† 19 January 1739 Hospozín
Marie
Vilém KAREL, shepherd
V. GENERATION
16.
17.
18.
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24.
25.
Matěj ZDENĚK, tavern keeper, village mayor
† before 1701
Ludmila
Václav HRACH
* 14 April 1664 Kmetiněves
oo 23 November 1683 Velvary
Kateřina KOŠŤÁLOVÁ
Matheus LAGLER
oo 18 August 1658 Teplice deanery
Dorotha HORN
VI. GENERATION
36.
37.
38.
48.
49.
50.
51.
Florian HRACH, village mayor of Kmetiněves
oo 28 October 1653 Velvary
Mariana, from Kleneč
Jan KOŠŤÁL, in Černuc
Matheus LAGLER, cottager
Dorotha
Thomas HORN
Maria
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Jifií Vichta
K předkům Antonína Dvořáka
Jiří Vichta
Tato studie se zaměřuje na předky Josefa Zdeňka, dědečka hudebního skladatele Antonína
Dvořáka z matčiny strany. Podle starších prací Jana Miroslava Květa a zejména Jiřího Musila,
kteří se předky Antonína Dvořáka podrobně zabývali, se stejnojmenný otec Josefa Zdeňka narodil roku 1750 v Hospozíně jako syn Jana Zdeňka a Růženy, rozené Jeřábkové. Původ jeho
manželky Doroty se pak ani jednomu ze jmenovaných badatelů nepodařilo zjistit, neboť nenalezli matriční zápis o jejich sňatku. Ten byl uzavřen roku 1772 ve Vraném a dokazuje, že
Dvořákův pradědeček Josef Zdeněk byl ve skutečnosti synem Jiřího Zdeňka a Anny, rozené
Brenkové, a narodil se roku 1746 v Horní Kamenici. Jeho manželkou byla Dorota Laglerová,
která se narodila roku 1753 v Hospozíně jako dcera Jakuba Laglera a Alžběty, rozené Karlové.
Pomocí pozemkové knihy zlonického panství pak bylo zjištěno, že dům čp. 7 v Hospozíně,
kde prokazatelně žili Dvořákovi praprarodiče, patřil původně právě Jakubovi Laglerovi, jehož
dědici byli dcera Dorota s manželem Josefem Zdeňkem. Díky těmto zjištěním se ukázalo, že
je potřeba revidovat některé závěry Jiřího Musila, jenž se stejně jako Květ chytil nesprávné
stopy a pátral po předcích osoby, která ve skutečnosti předkem Antonína Dvořáka nebyla. Ačkoliv dosud se mělo za to, že předkové Antonína Dvořáka pocházeli výhradně z oblasti severně a severozápadně od Prahy, tato studie prokazuje, že část jeho předků pocházela z německy mluvícího severočeského pohraničí. Konkrétně z vesnice Bystřice na Teplicku, kde se
narodil Dvořákův předek Jan Pavel Lagler, který se koncem 17. století přiženil do Hospozína.
Nejstaršími doloženými předky Antonína Dvořáka se stali Matouš Lagler a Tomáš Horn, dědečkové Jana Pavla Laglera, narození kolem roku 1600. Nejstarším přesně zjištěným datem
týkajícím se Dvořákových předků pak je 28. říjen 1653, kdy se ve Velvarech ženil kmetiněveský rychtář Florian Hrach. Nově bylo zjištěno i datum úmrtí Dvořákova dědečka Josefa Zdeňka, který zemřel 9. března 1857 ve zlonickém špitále. Dosud se předpokládalo, že zemřel ve
vesnici Uhy, kde působil jako šafář.