Concept in Definition ABC

Person who lives according to the ideals of Bohemia: freedom and nonconformity

The word Bohemian has several references ...One of the most widespread is the one that says that bohemian is that person who leads a lifestyle known as Bohemia, which certainly differs from conventional that most of the people follow and in which those are privileged above all things related to art and culture, to the detriment of other rather superficial issues such as materials. Among the most recurrent characteristics observed in a bohemian, freedom and nonconformity can be cited as the main drivers of action and behavior..

Disinterest in material issues and interest in the cultural and intellectual

Then, the bohemian will be a person who likes to philosophize, intellectualize instead of going shopping. Will surrender to a book, a work of art or theater and everything that is associated with the media and without content will not move a single hair.

The bohemian will also pay very little interest to the external appearance of people and that is why his

appearance it can be considered by the rest as sloppy or untidy, close to the presence of hippies. And this is so, because for the bohemian there are issues that have to do with the spirit, with deeper things, and that are more important than following the fashion or trend of the moment.

The term also allows us to refer to bohemia in general, as the community of people who decide to live in the way we mentioned above.: free, in permanent nonconformity, surrounded by cultural and artistic issues and very, very far from anything that supposes or has a material appeal. Generally, this community of people usually meet to discuss and share their motivations in places specially destined for such effect and that meet certain cultural characteristics, for example, artistic centers or bars that have a recognized trajectory in art and culture and that for this reason, due to the bohemian mystique that transpires, they turn out to be ideal at the time of the meeting of bohemians.

Cultural movement exercised by artists and intellectuals of the 19th century

Bohemia is the way in which a movement that expressed the aforementioned cultural and lifestyle characteristics and that was practiced at that time by artists and intellectuals almost exclusively.

Origin of the concept

The concept of bohemia to refer to this lifestyle was tax in a casual way we could say, since when the French author Henri Murguer defined it in his work Scènes de la Vie de Bohème did not propose it, however, that way of life that he described in the play ended up earning that term. The success of the work not only made him take off as an author but also served to end his title for being the name of that lifestyle that mixes intellectuality with contempt for what is material.

Everything related to or typical of the Czech city of Bohemia

And on the other hand, the bohemian term is used to refer to everything relative or typical of the Czech city of Bohemia.
Bohemia is together with Moravia and Silesia one of the three historical regions of the Czech Republic and its capital is the beautiful and appreciated city of Prague.
Prague is a city that is located on the banks of the Vltava River and as we said the heritage history that it boasts added to the landscape and urban beauty they made it many years ago in World Heritage Site and of course their admiration and visits have been in crescendo with the years.

People who enjoy traveling and seeing beautiful places in the world cannot skip from their itineraries to this beautiful city, one of the most beautiful in Europe.

In reality, the name of bohemia to designate the way of life to which we were referring arose precisely from this rendezvous city in the Czech Republic, because from it, in the nineteenth century a huge number of gypsy groups left for other countries Europeans, who lived and proposed social values ​​absolutely opposed to those proposed by the bourgeoisie conservative and sedentary at that time, for this and hence, intellectuals began to be called also by the term bohemians.

Meanwhile, the city of Bohemia borders Poland, Austria and Germany, geographically it is characterized by the mountain ranges that surround it, while industry, farming and mining turn out to be its main economic activities.

Also the term designates the language spoken in Bohemia.

Themes in Bohemian