What's in a Prague street name

Stallichova was named in 1952, but built before then.

Antonín Stallich was born in Vinohrady in 1887. In 1921, he married Anna Hronová, the younger sister of Antonín Hron, a World War I veteran who was active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and ultimately died of exhaustion at Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945.

Antonín (Stallich) and Anna had probably met while teaching at a school in Hostivař – what purports to be a yearbook with his name in it from 1915/1916 is available online – and also taught together at a school in Nusle, where they lived.

In 1934, Antonín S was best man at Antonín H’s wedding. The Stallichs, with their daughter, Bohumila, moved to Pod rovinou in Krč (post coming up).

As well as his teaching career, Stallich published textbooks and children’s books in a variety of languages – some, dated between 1935 and 1941, are on sale on https://www.antikavion.cz/autor/antonin-stallich.

He also seems to have illustrated a book on Buddhism in 1923: https://arl.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz/arl-pnp/en/detail-pnp_us_cat-023706-Buddhismus/?idx=pnp_us_cat*023706&iset=1&disprec=1.

On 6 May 1945, Stallich was killed by Nazi soldiers, on a dark day for Krč (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/02/prague-4-day-348-obeti-6-kvetna/). They told him to hide in his basement if he wanted to be spared, and they killed him anyway, throwing a grenade at him.

Anna Stallichová, with her daughter, moved away from Prague, living near Máchovo jezero; she died in 1978.

May all those who commit or consent to war crimes be remembered for nothing other than the fact that they committed or consented to war crimes.