Univerzita Karlova (Charles University)

At the age of 10, Lata was now a citizen of a brand new country, and by her 30th birthday, it would be ripped apart by the dawn of another war.

But before we get to that, Lotte enrolled at the University of Prague in 1929 to study philosophy.

She was an exceptional student with a skill for languages, and over the next three years she learned German, English, French, and Spanish.

Following graduation in 1932, she attended the Sorbonne Institute in Paris, where she earned diplomas in French Studies and Journalism before returning to Prague in 1935 to work as a journalist while finishing her PhD in Philosophy.

It's going to be really cool.

And it's November 5 and 6 at Charles University in Prague.

That's the big one.

Charles University, Prague.

And he used that label because he was indicating that although the Pope and the leadership of the Roman Catholic system claimed to represent Christ, claimed to be the vicar of Christ, in reality they were opposed to what Christ truly taught and what that which honors Christ includes.

It was one of Wycliffe's students a generation later, someone influenced by Wycliffe's writings and teachings in Bohemia, a man named John Hus or Jan Hus, who preached at the church there, the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, also taught at the University of Prague, who held those same convictions that Christ is the head of the church.

He wrote a book called De Ecclesia, means On the Church.

And in that book, he articulated what at that time was a radical concept.

And of course, in In the medieval period, and Jan Hus was very much a man of the late medieval period there, being born at the end of the 14th century, in the beginning of the 15th century.

At that point, you know, in Christendom, you know, the most popular... uh a people uh the men that were admired the most and celebrated uh the most were were the clergy were the priests and so he wants to become a priest so he can be comfortable and so he can have some kind of level of fame and probably honestly he wants to avoid goose raising you know uh who's the goose he wants out of the goose business and so he wants to go into the priesthood And it's important to note, because Hus does this by entering the University of Prague, it's important to note that at this time, about 100 years before the Reformation, that Hus is living in an area that's called Bohemia.

The modern day Czech Republic was called Bohemia.

It was ruled by Germany.

In fact, the Holy Roman Emperor was in charge of all of this land.

The Holy Roman Emperor at the time is a man named Sigismund, and it's his brother who is actually the ruler of Bohemia.

okay so there is we're in bohemia we're in you know modern day czech republic but it's ruled by germany and this is important because hoose enters the university of prague and there's a struggle that had been going on there already between the czech locals and the germans Though there was a mixture of national demographic, you know, different nationalities that were a part of the university, the student body was still about 50% Czech, Czech locals.

But the faculty was... overwhelmingly German.

So also at this point in time when Charles is trying to make Prague as this new capital, what he does is he establishes Karlova University.

It's then just called the University of Prague.

This is established in 1347.

In order to have that done, you have to have a papal bull.

You don't have to go to Bologna.

You can come to Prague instead.

But they do this really interesting thing at the University of Prague.

And the way they set up the university is they set it up into what they call nations.

Mr Prajak said the manner in which ANO and its coalition partners had recently fast-tracked divisive legislation to change the financing of public broadcasters, Czech television and Czech radio, had also been a factor in his decision, albeit not a crucial one.

Petr Jiptner is the head of the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University's Faculty of Social Sciences.

He spoke to Czech Radio after the shock announcement of Mr. Pražák's departure from ANO.

On one hand, I think we can regard his explanation as credible.

After spending his adolescence working as a blacksmith, Tomáš Masaryk went to study philosophy in Vienna and Leipzig.

In 1882, he was appointed professor of philosophy in the Czech part of the University of Prague.

He stayed fond of hard work and discipline his entire life, as you can hear in this speech he delivered to pupils and students in October 1928.

I wish you, as I