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Prague (UNIVERSITY OF There are two)

UNIVERSITY OF. There are two universities in Prague, a German and a Czech university. The former is the older of the two, it being oldest of the German universities .

Founded in 1348, with the four faculties of theology, law, medicine, and arts , it gained the attention of all Europe when , in 1403, John Huss became the rector.

During the period of the Hussite wars the university took on a distinctly Czech character, the German students withdrawing and founding the University of Leipzig. When, however, the Catholics and Germans secured the upper hand in Bohemia, as they did in the Thirty Years' War, the university came under the War, control of the Jesuits and a decided reaction against the Czechs took place .

With the growth of the spirit of nationality in the nineteenth century the Czech influence again made itself felt, and finally led to the founding of a separate University of Prague in 1882 with faculties of law, medicine and arts. As might be expected the new university rapidly ra outgrew the old one, as the population is predominately Czech. In 1919 at the opening of the World War the students in the Czech university numbered 7,051 while the German institution had 3,043.

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