Lucie Bakešová
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Lucie Bakešová | |
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.jpg) Bakešová in 1920 | |
| Born | 26 December 1853 |
| Died | 2 April 1935 (aged 81) |
| Occupations | Ethnographer, folklore collector and social activist |
| Spouse | František Xaver Bakeš (m. 1870, d. 1917) |
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| Relatives | Karla Absolonová-Bufková (sister) Madlena Wanklová (sister) Vlasta Havelková (sister) Karel Absolon (nephew) Vladimír Jindřich Bufka (nephew) |
Lucie Bakešová (née Wankelová; 26 December 1853 – 2 April 1935) was a Czech ethnographer, folklore collector and social activist.
Bakešová was born on 26 December 1853 in Blansko, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now in the Czech Republic).[1][2] She was the eldest of four daughters born to Jindřich Wankel, a palaeontologist and archaeologist known as the "father of Moravian archaeology",[3] and his wife Eliška Wanklová (née Šímová), an ethnographer and national revivalist.[4][2] Her sisters were Karla Absolonová-Bufková, writer and folklorist;[5] Madlena Wanklová, and Vlasta Havelková, collector of folk embroidery and the custodian of the Náprstek Museum in Prague.[4]
As a child, Bakešová took piano lessons from the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.[1]
On 17 August 1870, Bakešová married František Xaver Bakeš,[1] a landowner and member of the Moravian Diet (Czech: Moravský zemský sněm). She lived with her husband in the village of Ořechovičky near Brno[6] and they had a son together, Jaroslav Bakeš, who became a doctor.[7] The marriage was thought to have been unhappy, so Bakešová threw herself into folklore collecting work.[2] Her husband died in 1917.
Bakešová died on 2 April 1935 in Brno, aged 81.[8]
