Jindřich Bišický (February 11, 1889 in Zeměchy, now part of Kralupy nad Vltavou - October 31, 1949 in Velvary) is known as author of unique photographies from the World War I. He was properly identified only in the year 2009.
Jindřich Bišický was born in a small village in 1889. After apprenticeship as a bricklayer he studied technical school in Prague-Smíchov with 1906 practice in Drohobycz (Galicia), in the reconstruction of an oil refinery. His mandatory 10 months long military service was in Trient, as a military sketcher. At the beginning of World War I Bišický was drafted into the Infantry regiment No. 47 in Graz and became member of staff and regimental photographer. The regiment first fought on the Eastern Front, in Galicia; in 1915 it moved to the Italian Front and stayed there until the end of war. Lieteunant (and later Captain) Bišický took hundredths and hundredths of photograps of the life in the trenches, using ICA Ideal camera.
One year before the end of the war, on a leave, Bišický married Zdenka Pekárková. After the war the family moved to Velvary and Bišický worked as building contractor until his death by stomach cancer in 1949. His negatives, many on glass, were lent away and lost. During the 1970's they were obtained, unrecognized, by photographer Jaroslav Kučera (1949). In 2002 Kučera started to restore them and with the help of historians identified many locations and events. The author remained unknown. In 2009 these photos were exhibited in the Prague Castle and only then recognized by author's grandson, graduated historian Michal Rybák.