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21 unusual facts about Charles University in Prague


Dedekind-infinite set

Although such a definition was known to Bernard Bolzano, he was prevented from publishing his work in any but the most obscure journals by the terms of his political exile from the University of Prague in 1819.

DFC Prag

It was common for sports clubs to be founded based on the shared ethnicity of their members and DFC Prag was created by a group of German Jews, many of them students at Charles University in Prague.

Dušan Zbavitel

While still just a researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he taught Bengali at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (1950–1968).

Eduard Herbst

He was professor of criminal law and the philosophy of law at Prague in 1858, was elected a deputy to the Bohemian Diet, and then, in accordance with the February patent of 1861, was elected by the Diet to the Lower House on the Austrian Reichsrat, where he became one of the most conspicuous members of the German Liberal, or Constitutional, party.

Friedrich Paneth

After his habilitation in 1913 he became assistant of Otto Hönigschmid at the University of Prague.

Grazer AK

The club arose from an informal association of local academics around the medical student Georg August Wagner from Prague, later a professor at the Charles University and the Charité in Berlin.

Hana Andronikova

After attending high school in Zlín, she studied English and Czech at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.

Jan Kohout

Kohout is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.

Jiří Weil

Upon graduation, Weil was accepted to Charles University in Prague where he entered the Department of Philosophy and also studied Slavic philology and comparative literature.

Josef Velenovský

He was a research investigator and professor in the Botanical Institute of the University of Prague, alternating with his colleague Ladislav Josef Čelakovský.

Joseph Bach

Without the aid of a teacher he studied several foreign languages; after which he attended the University of Prague, remaining there 12 years.

Joseph Gottfried Mikan

In 1773 he became an associate professor, and two years later was appointed a full professor of botany and chemistry at the University of Prague.

Julius von Sachs

In 1856 he graduated as doctor of philosophy, and then adopted a botanical career, establishing himself as Privatdozent for plant physiology in the University of Prague.

Knights of the Cross with the Red Star

In the 1910s, besides the motherhouse at Prague, there were about 26 incorporated parishes, and 85 professed members, several of whom are engaged in gymnasia and the University of Prague.

Martin C. Putna

He works at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

Martin Krippner

Martin received a better education than many of his social contemporaries and studied law at Prague University.

Matěj Rejsek

As a young man he came to Prague to study at the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University in Prague.

Nyuserre Ini

The Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner who has been excavating the Old Kingdom pyramids on behalf of the University of Prague in Egypt since 1976 concurs with the view that Nyuserre had a reign in excess of 30 years.

Pavel Bergmann

Then he was interested in history and philosophy and was fortunate to start his studies while some of the leading scholars still worked at Charles University in Prague.

Peter Payne

Ultimately he had to flee from England, and took refuge in Bohemia, where he was received by the University of Prague on 13 February 1417, and soon became a leader of the reformers.

Roman Sebastian Zängerle

From 1794–95 he studied Oriental languages at the monastery of Zwiefalten, and then taught scripture at Wiblingen 1796–99, at Mehrerau 1799-1801, again at Wiblingen 1801–03, at the Benedictine University of Salzburg 1803–07, at the University of Cracow 1807–09, at the University of Prague 1811–13, and at the University of Vienna 1813–24.


Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (April 30, 1814 in Klatovy – October 24, 1852 in Prague) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Würzburg and later at the University of Prague.

Helmar Frank

Frank taught as a guest or honorary professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and the universities of Guangzhou, Nitra, Prague, Rosario, and Sibiu.

Jaroslav Peregrin

Jaroslav Peregrin (born 1957) is a professor of logic at Charles University in Prague and also a faculty member at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Jaroslav Vacek

Jaroslav Vacek (born 26 June 1943) is director of the Institute of South and Central Asia and former dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague, where he founded the teaching and research of Mongolian as a new subject.

Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun

After completing secondary school Linbrunn studied law and philosophy at the universities of Prague, Salzburg and Ingolstadt.

Karel Škorpil

Born in the city of Vysoké Mýto (then Hohenmauth in Austria-Hungary, now part of Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic) on 15 May 1859, he finished high school in Pardubice before graduating from the Charles University and the Technical University in Prague.

Leonard Steinhorn

Steinhorn has spoken as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Clinton School of Public Service, at Charles University in Prague, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Oskar Fischer

Michel Goedert of the MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge University uncovered Fischer's significance after his study in the archives of Charles University in Prague in 2008.

Stanko Tavčar

He studied Medicine at Charles University in Prague and after retiring from football, he practiced medicine in Ljubljana, Kranj and Vienna.

Tibor Šalát

Originally from Žitava by the southern region of Slovakia, he studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University in Prague.

Václav Hampl

He did postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota Medical School and, since 2002, has been a professor of physiology at Charles University in Prague.