Jan Černý was born into a furriers family in the small town of Uherský Ostroh, in the east of Moravia (Moravian Slovakia). He attended the gymnasium (a grammar school) in Uherské Hradiště from 1885 to 1893. After studies at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague – he graduated in 1898 – he began professional career as a state servant (county director) in Hodonín. From 1912 he was a senior department director in the Moravian governor´s office (stadtholder government). At the time of the revolutionary establishment of Czechoslovakia, being the highest-ranked Czech-speaking imperial state servant in Moravia, he became the head of the local government for the new state on 29 November 1918.
výročí sebeupálení Jana Palacha ... ledna 1969. Reklama. Fotogalerie. 50. výročí sebeupálení Jana Palacha ... Jan Palach chtěl svým činem probudit národ z rezignace a vyburcovat ho k odporu proti nastupující normalizaci. Další student, Jan Zajíc, se po vzoru Palacha upálil na protest proti normalizaci 25. února 1969 - v průchodu domu v horní části Václavského náměstí, jen desítky metrů od místa, kde se polil hořlavinou a zapálil Jan Palach ... .......