Eliška Řeháková (20 January 1846 – 31 March 1916) was a Czech teacher, translator, journalist and suffragist. She was awarded the Civil Merit Cross of Austria-Hungary.
Life
Řeháková was born on 20 January 1846[1] in Prague, and was one of seven siblings, including her sister Anna Řeháková, who also became a teacher.[2] Her parents were Václav Řehak, the owner of a grocer's shop, and Maria Řehaková-Zelenská, from Kutná Hora.[2] In her youth, Řeháková was a member of the Society of Czech Girls, co-founded by Bohuslava Rajská, F. Amerlingová and Božena Němcová.[citation needed]
Řeháková worked as a teacher.[2] From 1867 to 1870, she tutored of the daughters of František Štekl, a notary in Pelhřimov, before being appointed a temporary sub-teacher at the newly established girls' primary school in Čáslav.[3] In 1873, she returned to Prague to teach at an elementary school, then was employed to teach grammar and history at the newly established Old Town Burgher School for Girls, the first burgher girls' school in Prague.[3] She later became an executive of the first girls' grammar school in the Habsburg empire.[4]
Řeháková's sister Anna was also a teacher and they often shared lodgings together and travelled abroad with each other. They both became members of the Association of Czech Female Teachers and the American Club of Czech Ladies.[2]
