MIKOLÁŠ DAČICKÝ OF HESLOV
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP
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PERSONALITIES MIKOLÁŠ DAČICKÝ OF HESLOV |
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP |
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| Date of issue: | 13. 4. 2005 | |
| Face value: | 19 CZK | |
| Printing sheets: | 50 stamps | |
| Size of the stamp: | 23 x 40 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Oldřich Kulhánek | |
| Engraver: | Miloš Ondráček | |
| Method of printing: | rotary recess print in greenblack combined with photogravure in grey, violet and dark blue | |
| Subject of the stamp: | The Czech poet and chronicler Mikuláš Dačický of Heslov (1555-1626) was educated in Latin and in literary art, he also studied law and economy. Despite this he felt no need of pursuing a particular profession. His share in his father’s inheritance enabled him to live a careless life of a barrelhouse loafer, licentious man and a bully. Only as an old, steady man he began his work as a chronicler of the town of Kutná Hora by editing the records of his predecessors and further continuing them from 1575 until his death. In his “Memories” he describes the ordinary life of Kutná Hora, at that time the merchant centre of Bohemia. Most valuable is his evidence of the history of mining, digging and minting. He notices corrupt officials, mentions the sentences of mediaeval law, describes marriage as well as burial ceremonies, refers to the plague and gives and unbiased picture of the events surrounding the Battle of the White Mountain which he personally witnessed. He collected his satirical and other poems into the wr | |
| Catalogue No.: | 0433 | |
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