Professor Chudoba’ Plane Tree

The tree received its new name by the decision of the Brno City Council in January 2022. We will celebrate this milestone at 3 pm on Friday 29 April, 2022.

After a brief ceremony at the tree itself, we’ll move to the courtyard of Building G, Gorkého 7. The launch of Don Sparling's book Outside In. A Personal History of the Brno Department of English will take place there. 

Prof. Chudoba's plane tree can be found on the corner of Veveří and Pekárenská Streets, about a minute’s walk from the main building of the Faculty. It is a sycamore (Platanus x acerifolia), estimated to be 120 years old. It has been a memorial tree since 2003. The renaming was initiated by the Department of English and American Studies after Dr. Sparling learned from Prof. Chudoba's family about his June 6, 1930 article. In it, our founder and first professor criticized how the city of Brno cared for its trees.