Brno-Chrlice - Ernst Mach memorial plaque

This important physicist and philosopher was born on February 18, 1838 in Chrlice near Brno in the local archbishop's castle, where his maternal grandparents served at the time. Mach was a gifted child but had problems with classical languages. At the age of nine, he started studying grammar school, but did not finish it. He then successfully completed his studies at the Piarist grammar school in Kroměříž. From 1855 he studied at the University of Vienna…