What's in a Prague street name

Dobrušská was named in 1947.

The earliest mention we have of Dobruška, a town in the Hradec Králové Region, is from 1320, when it was an important part of the trade route to Kłodzko (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/01/29/prague-2-day-23-kladska/).

In the mid-1800s, Dobruška was an important regional centre of the Czech National Revival, mainly because it had been the birthplace of František Vladislav Hek, who was a key contributor to the Revival’s early stages (he died in 1847).

And Dobrušská, the street, is inevitably so called because Hek was very clearly the basis for the eponymous lead character of one of Alois Jirásek’s novels: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/16/prague-4-day-261-vekova/.

Hek’s birthplace is now a museum: https://www.kudyznudy.cz/aktivity/rodny-domek-frantiska-vladislava-heka-f-l-veka.