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The study is based on the prosopography of 93 professors, who have taught at the Prague Utraquist University in the years 1526–1622. It examines the careers of 63 of them, who have left the university and settled down ...

The paper presents the typical course of education, life journeys, and careers of professors of theology and law based on selected Viten (Vitae, biographies) from an early-modern collection of biographies by the Heidelbe...

The aim of the study is to show the consequences for the Hungarian Piarist Order stemming from the ecclesiastical reforms of Joseph II. (r. 1765–1790). Both Maria Theresa (r. 1740–1780) and her son, Joseph II wanted ...

The pathologist Franz Xaver Lucksch (1872–1952) seems to have been in many ways a rather distinctive personality within the academic landscape of German medicine and medical research in Bohemia. As a member of the gene...

Given the extent and state of surviving source materials, it is rather difficult to satisfactorily document the involvement of women of Jewish origin in academic education and their subsequent careers in science and prac...

The article provides the first overview on Soviet secularisation and the response of priest-less Old Believers in Latvia. Unlike Russia, Latvian Old Believers had the experience of longterm living in democracy before the...

The study deals with an important figure of 19th-century Hungarian legal science, who also had Czech roots. Professor Anton Virozsil (1792–1868) was born into a simple family in Banská Štiavnica. He originally prepar...