Otakar Borůvka
…in Uherský Ostroh, a town in Moravia, Austria-Hungary (today in the Czech Republic), the son of a school headmaster. He attended the grammar school in Uherské Hradiště beginning in 1910. In 1916, influenced by the ongoing World War I, he moved to the military school (Realschule) in Hranice, and later he enrolled into…