In the history of enterprise, Johann Schicht is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johann Schicht as Czech entrepreneur (1855–1907).
Johann Schicht was born at Rynoltice in 1855. His recorded nationality is Bohemia.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur and industrialist.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Bohemia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Johann Schicht died in 1907, aged 52. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
