Matěj Kopecký

Matěj Kopecký (24 February 1775, probably in Libčany – 3 July 1847 in Koloděje nad Lužnicí) was a Czech puppeteer.

The parish record about his death, though, labels him as "a histrion from Mirotice, widower and beggar".

The town museum in Týn nad Vltavou [1] hosts a permanent puppet exposition dedicated to Kopecký.

In 1862, a collection of 61 plays was published by Josef Richard Vilímek under the title "Comedies and plays by Matěj Kopecký as collected by his son Václav" (Komedie a hry Matěje Kopeckého dle sepsání syna Václava).

Being intended for uneducated public, the plays had been full of emotions and naive humour.