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History
Charles University was founded in 1348 during the rule of King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. It became the first Studium generale north of the Alps and east of Paris.
Modelled on universities in Bologna and Paris, it quickly gained international renown. Originally, it had four faculties: theology, liberal arts, law, and medicine. The status of the Czech academic community was strengthened under Charles’ son, King Wenceslas IV.
The university underwent transformation during the Hussite reformist movement (which preceded the Protestant Reformation); the religious reformer Master Jan Hus was rector of the university at the time. During the social and political revolution that followed, the university was reduced to just one faculty: the Faculty of Liberal Arts (Facultas artium liberalium), becoming a prototype for later Reformation academies.
Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II turned Prague into a cultural metropolis where the university flourished alongside the court.
In the early 17th century, the university fell under the strong political influence of the Protestant Czech Estates involved in the anti-Habsburg opposition movement, whose representatives sparked what grew into the Thirty Years’ War that ultimately engulfed most of Europe.
The outcome of the war saw fundamental changes and the institution became a part of Charles-Ferdinand University (a name which persisted until 1918).