Karel Plicka
Austrian-Czech, 1894 -1987
- Born in Vienna
- Family moved to Czech lands in 1900
- 1909-1913 graduate of teacher training institute in Hradec Kralove
- 1923-1937 collected folk songs and documented folk culture
- 1924-1928 studied ethnography and musicology at the University of Bratislava
- He was one of the founders in 1946, and the first dean of the Film Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU)
- Named National Artist in 1968