What's in a Prague street name

Děkanská was built in 1900.

Until 1947, it was called Lindnerova.

According to ‘Ulicemi města Prahy’ by Václav Hlavsa (basically What’s in a Prague Street Name, but as a book in 1958), it was named after Genoveva Lindnerová (1817-75), who set up a foundation at the University of Prague for pharmacy students.

However, that would require the street to have been be called Lindnerové, so the jury’s out.

A děkan is a dean, an official at a university (in my university days, it was the person was in their mid-20s – and therefore ancient-seeming – who told you to all to STFU because it was 23:30 and people were trying to sleep).

Making today’s street another one reminding us of Michle’s former status as the property of Charles University.