Coffee educator

In Prague, love and know how to make coffee. He appeared in the Czech Republic for a long time - even during the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 period. But half a century, he was elected a drink. For two reasons. The first - the high cost. But more important was the fact that the majority of Czechs at that time simply did not know what to do with these green beans. The view was that this medicine.
However, in the early eighteenth century in Prague appeared someone Georgies Gatalahu El Damascus, Armenian, born in Syria and adopted Catholicism in Rome in 1699.
About the name - that was given at baptism, and this, unfortunately, history has not preserved. He arrived in the capital of the Czech Republic, which was then part of the Austrian Empire, not burdened with the extra money, but with a great desire to start a business. He received permission to street trade. Competitors had at that time was not - he was dressed as a Turk, walked the streets with a small stove and offered to Prague citizens unfamiliar to them drink.
The case quickly gained momentum - people liked coffee. Georgies settled in Prague, married, and in 1707 received permission from Emperor Joseph I on the opening of coffee shops. In the Old Town, on Charles street, in the house of "The golden snake" in January 1708 was first opened in Prague coffee establishments. Which exists and is still named in honor of its founder.