Filip Čermák Tuchoměřický the Bohemian Patriotic Priest, and his ""Silent and Salutary Deeds for Nation""
Abstract
The paper deals with the personality of Filip Čermák Tuchoměřický, a Catholic priest, who was born in 1798 in the village Tuchoměřice in Central Bohemian Region and he worked in the village Liběchov (Mělník district), in the course of years 1837 to 1877. During his studies, Filip Čermák was under the Bohemian patriotic societie's influence, thus he decided to become a Catholic priest and he wanted to have an influence on the national awareness of the countryside lower social class.
During his life in Liběchov, he supported the local Bohemian nationalist element (Bohemian patriotic aktivity) in close cooperation with the owner of the Liběchov manor, Antonín Veith. In the course his life, he spared 16 thousand Gulden, in his will he bequeathed it the Svatobor Association, whose main activity was the support of Bohemian writers.
In the years 1879 - 1940, the Svatobor Association granted a financial awards to the best work writing in Czech language from the belles-lettres, natural and philosophical-historical sciences from Čermák's Foundation.