 Jan Kotrč

Jan Kotrč (23 August 1862, Bielitz – 17 October 1943, Vlachovo Březí) was a Czech chess master, chess publisher and chess problem composer.Born in Bielitz (then Austrian Silesia, now Bielsko-Biała in Poland), he was an editor of chess magazines "Šach-Mat" (1884-1885), "České listy šachové" (1896-1900) in Prague, and "Arbeiter Schachzeitung" in the 1920s-1930s in Vienna.