Talk:Emil Škoda

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Please think over: The statement 'Emil Ritter von Skoda (1839-1900) was a czech engineer' might be wrong.

Since the state of the (former) czechoslovak socialist republic (CSSR) was founded in 1918 (independance from Austria-Hungary), Emil von Skoda could be called as an engineer of (the former) Austria-Hungary. In 1918 he was already 18 years dead.

Regards, F. Dittrich, Germany

Okay, thinking over ... done. :-) The term Czech does not denote only state entity of Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic, but ethnos as well. Existence of the Czech nation is of course independent of the existence of any Czech state. There is no problem to be Czech before 1918. Cheers, Pavel --80.95.254.1 13:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Dear Pavel,

the official Webside of the Czech Republic says that he was of Austrian origin

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheiron1312 (talk • contribs) 09:05, 27 November 2007 (UTC) 

Your claim isn't true! The official website of Czechia listed Emil Škoda among the other Famous Czechs from history. (Of course, on this list are named some persons which were of German (or Jewish, Italian, French) origin and were in some way (birth; sojourn and creation – for part or most of life) linked with history of the Czech lands: Rudolph II, Jehuda Liva ben Becalel, Matthias of Arras, Petr Parléř, Matthias Bernard Braun, Jean-Baptiste Gaspard Debureau, Johan Gregor Mendel, Sigmund Freud, Ernst Mach, Franz Kafka. Except these all others tens of persons – including E. Škoda and his father – were (either full or half) Czech (Slavic) nationality as their names prove!) --Iaroslavvs (talk) 20:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)