Jan Šimek
1875–1953 (age 78)
Biography
Jan Šimek (1875–1953) lived through the final decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and witnessed the creation and development of the Czechoslovak state. His life spanned nearly eighty years of profound historical change in Central Europe.
He is honored in the Main cemetery in Louny, where his grave reflects the continuity of community and family ties that persisted through the dramatic transformations of his era.