Charles University in Prague - Organisation

Organisation

Today, Charles University comprises 17 faculties:

  • Catholic Theological Faculty
  • Protestant Theological Faculty
  • Hussite Theological Faculty
  • Faculty of Law
  • 1st Faculty of Medicine
  • 2nd Faculty of Medicine
  • 3rd Faculty of Medicine
  • Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň
  • Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
  • Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
  • Faculty of Arts (and Philosophy)
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
  • Faculty of Humanities

Together with Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Charles University founded a prestigious economics institute CERGE-EI.


Undivided, before 1882 Czech University
(1882–1939 and 1945–present)
German University
(1882–1945)
  • Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), mathematician and philosopher
  • Vincenz Czerny (1842 - 1916), surgeon
  • Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829), philologist and historian
  • Anton Gindely (1829–1892), historian
  • Jan Hus (1369–1415), religious thinker and reformer
  • Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836), poet and writer
  • Jan Marek Marci (1595–1677), physician
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869), physiologist
  • Agustín Stahl (1842–1917), scientist
  • Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838–1874), paleontologist
  • Matthias of Trakai (c. 1370–1453), Bishop of Vilnius
  • Václav Bělohradský (b. 1944) philosopher
  • Antonín Holý (1936 – 2012) Czech chemist, played an important role in creating drugs to treat HIV and AIDS
  • Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), sociologist, second president of Czechoslovakia
  • Adalbert Czerny (1863–1941), pediatrician
  • Karel Čapek (1890–1938), writer
  • Eduard Čech (1893–1960), mathematician
  • Stanislav Grof (b. 1931), a founder of transpersonal psychology
  • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), chemist, Nobel laureate
  • Miroslav Holub (1923–1998), writer and immunologist
  • Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), writer
  • Jan Janský (1873–1921), discoverer of blood types
  • Karl I of Austria (1887–1922), last emperor of Austria, last king of Bohemia (Czech & German universities)
  • Jan Kavan (b. 1946), politician and diplomat
  • Luboš Kohoutek (b. 1935), astronomer
  • Henry Kucera (b. 1925), linguist/cognitive scientist
  • Martin Kukučín (1860–1928), Slovak writer
  • Milan Kundera (b. 1929), writer
  • Lyubomir Miletich (1863–1937), Bulgarian academician
  • George Placzek (1905–1955), physicist
  • Jan Stráský (b. 1940), politician
  • Ota Šik (1919–2004), economist
  • Vavro Šrobár (1867–1950), Czechoslovak physician and politician of Slovak origin
  • Peter Tomka (b. 1956), International Court of Justice judge
  • Ivana Trump (b. 1949), Socialite and entrepreneur
  • Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942), writer
Haik Assatrian (1900-1956) Armenian historian/philosopher
  • Ferdinand Blumentritt
  • Johann Böhm
  • Max Brod (1884–1968), writer
  • Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), biochemist, Nobel laureate
  • Gerty Cori (1896–1957), biochemist, Nobel laureate
  • Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner
  • Karl Deutsch (1912–1992), social and political scientist
  • Viktor Fischl (1912–2006), poet and diplomat
  • Karl Hermann Frank
  • Hermann Grab
  • Erich Heller
  • Friedrich Hopfner
  • Franz Hofmeister
  • Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer
  • Karl I of Austria (1887–1922), last emperor of Austria, last king of Bohemia (German & Czech universities)
  • Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), writer and journalist
  • Wilhelm Klein
  • Paul Kornfeld
  • Arthur Mahler
  • August Leopold von Reuss
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Johannes Urzidil (1896–1970), writer and journalist
  • Felix Weltsch
  • Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), psychologist

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