Božena Němcová [SEP] place of birth
Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová () (4 February 1820 in Vienna – 21 January 1862 in Prague) was a Czech writer of the final phase of the "Czech National Revival" movement.
Her image features on the 500 CZK denomination of the banknotes of the Czech koruna.
Biography.
According to the dating up to now accepted by the majority of Czech authors, Božena Němcová was born in 1820 as "Barbara Pankel" (or "Barbora Panklová" according to the usual Czech name-giving for women
was erected at the cost of the Ratibořice miller Antonín Ruder and his wife Anna.
If we walk upstream of the mill drive we find ourselves – after covering a little less than one hundred metres – standing by one of the symbols of Ratibořice. It is a monument called Grandmother and Her Grandchildren. Its foundation stone was laid in July 1920 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the writer Božena Němcová. The solemn unveiling of the monument took place on 9 July 1922 and was widely attended by societies