What's in a Prague street name

Věkova was built in 1933.

After a brief detour, we’re back in ‘characters from novels by Alois Jirásek’ territory.

František Ladislav Věk is a Czech patriot in the novel titled, well, F. L. Věk, and described (to an extent) on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/02/prague-4-day-247-vrbova/.

He is a student – and, later in the novel, a merchant from Dobruška, which is getting its own post soon enough. The novel is essentially his life story, but also covers a lot of other ground.

Věk was based on a real person, specifically the remarkably similarly-named František Vladislav Hek (1769-1847), a writer, publicist, composer and fervent Czech patriot who took part in the early stages of the Czech National Revival.