Jan Nepomuk Kubíček (in Portuguese: Kubitschek) was one of the great-grandfathers of the former Brazil

Brazil

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ian president, Juscelino Kubitschek. Kubíček was a Catholic

Catholic

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 carpenter

Carpenter

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 born in Trebon

Trebon

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 (nowadays a town in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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). He was among the first group of Czech immigrants to arrive in Brazil (in 1823). Nicknamed as João Alemão ("German John"), Jan Kubíček settled down in Diamantina, Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

, and became the first patriarch of the Kubitschek family in Brazil.