What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 19 July 2022.

Tovačovského was built in 1904.

Jan Tovačovský z Cimburka st. (1400-ish to 1464) was a Moravian nobleman.

Born a Catholic, he converted to the Kalisz faith and became a faithful follower of Jiří z Poděbrad.

He took part in the battles of Ústí nad Labem (1426) and Tachov (1427).

From 1439 to 1460, he was a provincial governor in Moravia.

His son, Ctibor Tovačovský, was a politician and author, who became governor of Moravia in 1469, and was Supreme Chancellor of Bohemia from 1471 to 1479.