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unusual facts about Charles University



Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague

Located in a new, award-winning campus-like facility of Charles University in the Prague district of Jinonice, the school has 200 faculty members and approximately 2 000 students.

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.

Jan Kohout

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

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.

Murray Pittock

He has also been a visiting fellow at universities worldwide including: Notre Dame (2014), Charles University, Prague (2010); Trinity College, Dublin (2008); the University of Wales in advanced Welsh and Celtic studies (2002) and Yale (1998, 2000–01).

Prague 1

The Parliament of the Czech Republic and the offices of the government are in Malá Strana, while the main building of Charles University is in Staré Město.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Prague astronomical clock

The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.

Swami Jnanananda

He took up research in High Tension and X-Ray Physics at Charles University, Prague.


see also

M. Wolf

Marek Wolf, a Czech astronomer, currently with the Astronomical Institute, Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Charles University).

Zahradnik

Miloš Zahradník, Czech mathematician who works on statistical mechanics in Charles University in Prague

Zdeněk Nejedlý

In 1908 he began to lecture in musicology at Charles University, forming a circle of devoted young colleagues that included Zich and Vladimír Helfert.