Čeněk Paclt: el trotamundos checo en México y Brasil

• Main Author: Jaroslav Kříž
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Karolinum Press 2019-08-01
• Series: Ibero-Americana Pragensia
• Subjects: Čeněk Paclt; traveler; Mexican-American War; 19th century
• Online Access: http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/24647063.2019.5

This article deals with American travels (mainly to stay in Mexico and Brazil) of Czech traveler Čeněk Paclt (1813-1887). Paclt belongs to the half-forgotten travelers of the nineteenth century, although in professional circles, his name is known. Among Czech adventurers and travelers, however, he has an important position, because he holds one primacy. Paclt is also the first Czech, who has provably traveled through all five inhabited continents and has left written evidence about his journeys. He came to the American land in the year 1846. Paclt traveled over Mexico, Brazil and large part of the East Coast of the United States of America. He went through Mexican territory during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) as an American soldier. He was on the American continent in the years 1846-1857.