A Fictitious Czech Is Their Greatest Hero

I've never heard of Jara Cimrman, but a number of Czechs recently picked him as their greatest citizen of all time. Cimrman, a character created by two writers in the 1960's, is described in today's Los Angeles Times as a "gray-bearded man in tweed" with "the intellect of Albert Einstein and the haphazard charm of Mr. Magoo."