Charles-Ferdinand University divided

2017

The Karolinum, seat of the divided Charles-Ferdinand University after 1882 Place: Karolinum and the new Czech faculties, Old Town Figures: Emperor Franz Joseph I, signing · Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, appointed associate professor of philosophy in October · Jaroslav Goll, historian · Jan Gebauer, philologist Charles IV's university has been a single institution since 1348. By the late nineteenth century it teaches in German with Czech permitted as a courtesy. Czech students and faculty have been petitioning for a separate Czech-language faculty for fifteen years. The imperial law of February 28, 1882 splits the Charles-Ferdinand University into two parallel institutions: a Czech university and a German university, each with full faculties of theology, law, medicine, and philosophy. They share the Karolinum building, the rector's mace, and the seals, in alternating ceremonies. They share nothing else. The split is enacted from the autumn semester of 1882. The subject dates from 1882; this photograph was taken in 2017.