What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 16 July 2022.

Blahoslavova was built before 1875.

Jan Blahoslav (1523-1571) was a writer, translator, and composer, among many other professions.

He was a bishop in the Jednota bratrská (see yesterday: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/26/prague-3-day-83-ceskobratrska/), and, in 1564, translated the New Testament into Czech.

He also published ‘Muzika’ (a ‘guide to how to sing hymns’ – think those For Dummies books, but in 1558), reputedly the first Czech-language book on music theory.

In written correspondence, he used various pen names which I am totally going to try out for myself: Apteryx, Makarius and Blasius.