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3 unusual facts about University of Prague


Davor Džalto

As a visiting and honorary professor he has thought at various Universities in Europe and the US, including University of Prague, Indiana University, Fordham University of New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

Ivan Horbachevsky

In 1883 he was appointed extraordinary professor and in 1884 ordinary professor at the University of Prague by the Emperor.

Slavko Hirsch

After high school education Hirsch studied medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Innsbruck Medical University and University of Prague.


Bufotenin

Bufotenin was first isolated, from toad skin, and named by the Austrian chemist Handovsky at the University of Prague during World War I.

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.

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.

Friedrich Paneth

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

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.

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.

Otto von Fürth

He worked at the University of Vienna, the University of Prague and the University of Straßburg where received his habilitation in medical chemistry in 1899.

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.


see also

Konstantin von Höfler

He saw in Jan Hus only an antagonist of Germanism, the destroyer of the University of Prague and of the sciences.

Shabbethai Bass

In 1712 the Jesuit father Franz Kolb, teacher of Hebrew at the University of Prague, succeeded in having Bass and his son Joseph arrested, and their books confiscated.

Wenceslaus II of Legnica

Since 1363, Wenceslaus II began his studies in the University of Prague, and in the decade of 1370 he travelled to Montpellier, France, where he obtained a degree in canon law.