At the end of the eighteenth century, the House of the Three Red Lions (no. 920) in Kozí Street was home to “the last of the old Bohemian alchemists,” as the historian of alchemy Otakar Zachar remembered him. His name was Krištof Bergner (1721–1793), an Old Town burgher and owner of the house. He originally worked in the laboratory of Count Vrbna of Freudenthal’s Prague alchemical society. Later he was the first to construct a domestic coal-burning stove.
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At the end of the eighteenth century, the House of the Three Red Lions (no. 920) in Kozí Street was home to “the last of the old Bohemian alchemists,” as the historian of alchemy Otakar Zachar remembered him. His name was Krištof Bergner (1721–1793), an Old Town burgher and owner of the house. He originally worked in the laboratory of Count Vrbna of…
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 270
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.