Abstract
On Sunday, July 28, 2019, 150 years have passed since the death of the most famous Czech scientist and the leading representative of Czech political and social life of the 19th century, Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787 - 1869). On Friday, July 26, 2019 this anniversary was reminded by the Jan Evangelista Purkyně Czech Medical Association at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague.
Her president Prof. MUDr. Štěpán Svačina, DrSc., together with the Rector of Charles University prof.
MUDr. Tomáš Zima, DrSc. and Vice-Rector of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem RNDr.
Alena Chvátalová, Ph.D. held a ceremonial act in which several short speeches were made. When J.
E. Purkyně participated in the laying of the foundation stone of the National Theater in May 1868, he declared: "I have the honor of representing science at today's feast.
Science and art have always been linked together. Art clears the way, science continues and ends.
Long live science and the art of science." The epitaph on the tombstone at Vyšehrad Slavín also characterizes the personality of Purkyně: "If and where God allows to live, be faithful to your homeland and faith, my friend."