What's in a Prague street name

Lomnického was built in 1900.

Šimon Lomnický was born into a poor family in Lomnice nad Lužnicí in 1552, but, thanks to Vilém z Rožmberka, a noble and one-time treasurer of Bohemia, he was able to have an education.

He wrote a series of books about the seven deadly sins and their moral impact, including volumes with fun titles like Knížka o sedmi hrozných ďábelských řetězích (A Booklet on the Seven Terrible Devil’s Chains).

Or Traktát o tanci (A Treatise on Dancing – apparently one of the mortal sins).

Or Tobolka zlatá (The Golden Capsule; apparently against greed and usury, although Lomnický was allegedly quite partial to a bit of the latter).

Or Pejcha života (The Scourge of Life; a work criticising pride with a small p, and goodness know what he’d have had to say about Pride with a capital P).

His most famous work was Kupidova střela (Cupid’s Arrow), a collection of works on why people fornicate and how you can avoid fornicating (admitting to writing books like this probably being a good first step).

Having had his property burnt down in 1619 by Habsburg troops, Lomnický apparently converted from Catholicism to Hussitism, back to Catholicism again, before dying in 1623, penniless.