Rypka House

The house was created in 1677 by dividing an older tavern building in Vodní Street, and craftsmen lived here from the very beginning. In 1818 it was bought by Cyril Rypka, and his family of gingerbread makers and wax chandlers owned it until 1919.

On 28 May 1886 the orientalist and academician PhDr. Jan Rypka (died 1968) was born here, later professor of oriental languages at Charles University in Prague. He focused mainly on Turkish and Modern Persian and on the classical poetry of these nations, especially its literary history, and became a scholar of world renown. He is known for his translation of an epic by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami and for his History of Persian and Tajik Literature, which was also published in Russian and Polish. He held the Order of the Republic, a state prize and honorary doctorates from the universities of Warsaw, Paris and Tehran.

The house is part of the Kroměříž urban heritage reservation.

Based on a text by Jindřich Spáčil for the memorial plaques of Kroměříž houses.