The most important influence, though, comes down to one person: Jaroslav Prusek, the dean of China studies in Czechoslovakia, a member of the national academies of both Germany and Great Britain, and the founder during the 1940s and 50s of both the Oriental Institute and the Sinology Research Office at the University of Prague (the oldest university in Central Europe).
然而最重要的影響，還是「人」。捷克漢學的開山鼻祖，首推於一九四○、五○年代一手創立東方研究所及在中歐最古老的查理大學建立漢學教研室的雅羅斯拉夫．布魯謝克。這位同時身為德國及英國研究院院士的漢學家，在完成歐洲數所大學的學業後，曾於三○年代到過中國與日本。