What is "jaroslav"

Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław) is a Slavic first name pagan in origin.

There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the name referred to Jarilo - male Proto-Slavic deity of the sun, spring, and fertility, and slav meaning glory, i.e. "glory of the sun". However, with the adoption of Christianity in the Slavic countries the name began to be commonly understood not as a reference to a pagan deity, but rather to the "fervent worship of God"1 of the Bible.

People named Jaroslav (Yaroslav):

• Jaroslav Drobný, Czech tennis player
• Jaroslav Foglar, Czech novelist
• Jaroslav Halak, Slovak ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders
• Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author, writer of The Good Soldier Švejk.
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Czech chemist and inventor, recipient of the Nobel prize
• Jaroslav Janiš, Czech race car driver
• Jaroslav Janus, Slovak ice hockey goaltender for the HC Slovan Bratislava
• Jaroslav Jakubovic, Czech jazz soxophonist
• Jaroslav Levinský, Czech tennis player
• Jaroslav Nesetril, Czech mathematician
• Jaroslav Pelikan, American Christian scholar
• Jaroslav Pospíšil, Czech tennis player
• Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet, recipient of the Nobel prize
• Jaroslav Špaček, retired Czech Ice Hockey defenceman, formerly in the NHL

Jaroslav is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 210 inhabitants.