Dr. Miroslav Tyrš was a Czech national revivalist of German origin, critic, art historian, aesthetician and university professor. He was born into a German-speaking family of spa and manor doctor MUDr. Jan Vincenc Tirsch at the Děčín castle. His grandfather on his father’s side - mason Karel Tirsch - came from Krbice (Körbitz), a German-speaking, now extinct village. Mother Vincencie Tirschová, née Kirschbaumová, and father came from Bohemia but spoke German.
From the age of six he was raised in a Czech patriotic family of his uncle on his mother’s side in Kropáčova Vrutice, later in Stránov. In 1841 he moved to Prague to his uncle Antonín Kirschbaum and began to study. At first at a two-class trivial school with the Maltese, he continued at the Malá Strana gymnasium. Here he became interested in studying ancient culture.
After graduating from school, Tyrš went to study at the request of relatives at the Faculty of Law of Charles University. He did not like law, so he transferred to the Faculty of Philosophy where he studied philosophy and aesthetics. He participated in the creation of organized physical education movement in Bohemia, especially in the founding of Sokol and is the author of Czech physical education terminology.
Tyrš’s contribution to Czech culture is invaluable. His work in aesthetics and art history is still valued today and his efforts in founding Sokol and supporting the physical education movement had a great impact on the development of Czech society.(source: Wikipedia)