Týmlova was built in 1906.
Until 1947, it was called Dvořákova (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/27/prague-1-day-221-dvorakovo-nabrezi/ for one of the most famous Czechs ever).
Jan Týml was born in Skvrňany, near Plzeň, in 1905. He graduated from teacher training college in 1924, and subsequently taught in Aš, Kotíkov (also near Plzeň), Ošelín (near Stříbro) and, from 1929, in Nusle.
In 1934, he became editor of a magazine called Krajan (Compatriot) and, in 1939, of a youth magazine called Český domov (Czech Home).
He was also a prolific writer, publishing books of poetry, but also of his observations from his travels (he visited, and reported on, for example, Poland, Dalmatia, New York, the Soviet Union and, during its four-day civil war in 1934, Austria).
When the Nazis occupied Bohemia and Moravia, Týml became a member of a local resistance group, Spořilov, and wrote for V boj (Into battle), a resistance magazine. It had a circulation of up to 5,000 before its final issue in 1941.
Týml was arrested in September 1940 and imprisoned at Pankrác. He was then held in various concentration camps, including Terezín.
From March to May 1945, the Swedish Red Cross ran a programme to evacuate thousands of concentration camp survivors.
It seems that Týml was one of those evacuated – however, he died of typhus in May 1945, just three weeks after the end of WWII in Europe, in a quarantine camp in Lund. He was forty.
A tribute to him was published in book form in 1946: https://www.antikavion.cz/kniha/in-memoriam-jana-tymla-1946.
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