Ivančice ( [ˈɪvantʃɪtsɛ]; German: Eibenschütz) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, 21 kilometres (13 mi) south-west of Brno. The town has approximately 9,300 inhabitants. It lies on the confluence of Oslava, Jihlava and Rokytná rivers.
Ivančice was first mentioned in 1221, and from 1288 it had the status of a royal town. In the fifteenth century the town came into the hands of the von Lipá family, and it stayed in their possession until the Battle of White Mountain. In the sixteenth century, the town was an important centre for the Unity of the Brethren; Ivančice was home to Jan Blahoslav, bishop of the brethren and Czech linguist. In the Thirty Years' War Ivančice was recatholicised and lost its previous significance.
Ivančice was the birthplace of Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha. The town is now home to a museum of the life of actor Vladimír Menšík.
Jan Blahoslav (1523 – 1571), humanist writer, Christian theologian, historian, and bishop of the Moravian Church
Christian Entfelder (1526, here, Royal Hungary – 1544, Prussia), anabaptist
Petrus Herbert (Hubert) (1533, Fulnek, Austria – 1571, here), Protestant theologian
Karl von Zerotein, the Elder (German: Karl der Ältere von Zerotein, Czech: Karel starší ze Žerotína (1564, Brandeis an der Adler – 1636, Prerau), Moravian nobleman and politician; a member of the House of Zierotin
Leopold Adler (1850–1990), Jewish actor, director and playwright, acted in Germany
Guido Adler (1855 – 1941), Jewish musicologist
Alfons Mucha (1860, here – 1939), painter
Arthur Franzetti, né Jellinek (1873, here – 1928)
Karel Sokol Elgart (1874 – 1929), writer, playwright, and literary critic
Jiří Dvořák (1891 – 1977), painter
Theodor Kilian (1894 – 1978), Esperantist
Hugo Weisgall (1912, here – 1997, Long Island), Jewish composer
Vladimír Menšík (1929–1988), actor
Jan Procházka (1929–1971), writer and film director
Vojtěch Adam (born 1950), politician, and doctor
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Marie Jirásková (born 1964), artist and stage designer
Lubomír Hargaš (1967–1997, Zidlochovice), track cyclist
Josef Prokš (born 1959), military man
Martin Horáček (born 1980), footballer
Tereza Fajksová (born 1989), Miss Czech Republic Earth 2012, Miss Earth 2012 titleholder
Beneš Metod Kulda (1820 – 1903), priest, writer, and ethnologic collector (folk songs and fairy tales)
Jaroslav Matějka (1927 – 2010), writer, screenwriter, journalist, filmmaker, and historian
Vladimír Menšík (1929 – 1988), actor
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Václav Novotný (1869 – 1932), historian
Rabbi Joachim Oppenheim (1832 – 1891), writer and rabbi
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Karl Panowsky (1833 – 1894), miller and politician
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Zdeněk Růžička (born 1925), gymnast
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Václav Solín (1527 – 1566), a priest of the Moravian Church, musician, writer, and administrator of the printery of Ivančice
Jakub Svoboda
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Augustin Uher (1908 – 1985), journalist, writer and historian
Břetislav Horyna (born 1959), philosopher and religious scholar
Eibenschütz pedigree
Auerbach pedigree
