[vsnet-chat 18] Purkynje (Purkinje)

[Hirayama Tomohiro <ohiraya@tarou.mtk.nao.ac.jp>]

Re vsnet-chat 14, 15, & 16
His Czech name is Jan Evangelista Purkyn\v{e} (\v{e} is
used in TeX, computational composing system, to represent
e with something like v above it.  Pronounce: yan
evangelista poorkinye. g is hard like g in go, oo is short,
r is trilled like in Russian of Italian, accents on the
first syllables).  He was a professor at the
Karel University (Charles University, or Prague University).
His tomb is in the national cemetery at Vyshehrad, Praha.
In 1996 July I visited this cemetery.  Not far from Purkynje
reposes also Zdenek Kopal.  In that travel to attend Universal
Esperanto Congress in Praha, I was also in Brno, where I met
Rudolf Novak, Nicholas Copernicus Observatory.  I hope he or
other vsnet member in Czech Republic will give some  more
information.
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