Czech Technical University Prague
| Czech Technical University Prague | |
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| founding | 1863 |
| Sponsorship | Czech Republic |
| place | Prague |
| country | Czech Republic |
| Rector | Vojtěch Petráček |
| Students | 24,238 (October 31, 2007) |
| Networks | IAU , TIME |
| Website | www.cvut.cz |
The Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech: České vysoké učení technické v Praze , short: ČVUT or English: CTU ) is a major technical university in the Czech Republic with its headquarters in Prague .
history
founding
The "Ck Česká Vysoká Školá Technická" was founded in 1879 after the German-Czech language conflict could not be resolved by the bilingual teaching that was introduced in 1869 at the German State Polytechnic Institute of the Kingdom of Bohemia . In 1874 it moved to a new building on Charles Square in Prague. At the time of industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century (1909) the number of students rose to 3,000. Those who passed both state exams were allowed to use the professional title of engineer . The now Czech Technical University in Prague experienced a heyday. In 1894 the TTH celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Since 1920
After the establishment of Czechoslovakia and the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , the university was reorganized in August 1920. It was now called České vysoké učení technické (ČVUT). The departments were replaced by schools (in the meaning of faculties ), which were run by deans .
At that time, ČVUT consisted of 7 universities:
- Civil engineering
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Architecture and building construction
- Mechanical and electrical engineering
- Chemical-technological engineering
- Special sciences
- trade
In 1921 František Klokner founded a research and development institute for material testing.
ČVUT was closed in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on November 17, 1939, initially for three years. It continued under the name of the Prague Technical University . After the end of the Second World War , the Czech Technical University in Prague reopened on June 4, 1945. After 1948 and the takeover of government by the Communist Party, many students were expelled from the university by the Komunistická strana Československa under Klement Gottwald because of their political views or non-proletarian origins . The Faculty of Business and Economics was dissolved. A reorganization took place from 1949 to 1960; Comprehensive school areas were set up, such as the military chair, defense theory and the chair in Marxism-Leninism . In 1949 the Prague University of Economics was spun off . In 1952 the chemical and agricultural departments were also outsourced. In 1953 the University of Railway Engineering was founded by separating further departments , from which the University of Žilina later emerged.
From 1976 the ČVUT had the following faculties.
- Civil engineering
- mechanical engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Nuclear physics and physics
- Architecture (1976)
In 2004, a total of 22,934 students (including 9,279 Bachelor , 10,852 Magister and 2,803 doctoral students ) studied in 47 courses (214 subject areas ). The school is involved in international exchange programs.
Faculties and university institutes
Today the school has 8 faculties and two independent university institutes.
- Faculty of Construction (with a branch in Sezimovo Ústí )
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering
- Faculty of Nuclear Technology and Physical Engineering 2
- Faculty of Architecture
- Faculty of Transport Sciences (with a branch in Děčín )
- Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (in Kladno )
- Faculty of Information Technologies
University institutes:
- Klokner Institute
- Masaryk Institute
Other facilities
- Data center
- Technology and innovation center
- Industry research center
- Institute for Technical and Experimental Physics
- Center for Radiochemistry
- Institute for Construction and Investment
- publishing company
Teacher
- František Běhounek (1898–1973), professor of physics
- Rudolf Lukeš (1897–1960), professor of organic chemistry
- František Müller (1835–1900), professor of geodesy
- Emil Votoček (1872–1950), professor of chemistry
- Josef Zítek (1832–1909), professor of architecture
- Jan Zvoníček (1865–1926), professor (steam engines, compressors)
- see also category: University professors (Czech Technical University Prague)
students
- Josef Hrubý (1906–1988), architect
- František Křižík (1847–1941), important technician, industrialist and inventor
- Paul Ludwik (1878–1934), materials technician in Vienna
- Heinrich Mandel (1919–1979), global protagonist of nuclear energy
- Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1975
Students at the German-speaking university
- Friedrich Balling (1803-1859), chemist, central director of iron processing plants
- Karl Albert Max Balling (1835–1896), professor of chemistry, tasting and metallurgy at the Pribram mining academy
- Eduard Adam Schmidl (* 1794 Prague, † April 3, 1872 Vienna), technician, 1814–1818 studied at the Prague Polytechnic and at the Charles University in Prague with Franz Josef von Gerstner , his supplement and successor, 1852 general director of a building department in Vojvodina
- Kajetan Ludwig Leopold Ebenhöch (* 1821 in Petersdorf, municipality of Deutsch-Gabel in Northern Bohemia , died August 8, 1894 in Radautz in Bukowina), engineer for surveying and metal processing; Foreman of the ironworks in Schindelwald (Sindelova) of Counts Nostitz, Neudeck ( Nejdek ) district in western Bohemia, 1855 director of a wire factory in Weißenbach an der Triesting , Parish Pottenstein in Lower Austria, 1862 director of the ironworks in Kaufing, parish office Rüstorf in Upper Austria; Civil geometer and head of the KK Staats- Gestüt in Radautz , a city in the Austrian Empire , Duchy of Bukowina .
- Georg Löw (1830–1887), General Director of the Bohemian Northern Railway
- Franz von Ringhoffer (1844–1909), student and Dr.techn.hc at the German Technical University in Prague
literature
Joseph Johann Boehm: The German Technical University in Prague and its preliminary stages. Two and a quarter centuries of academic German engineering training (1718–1945), Munich 1991 (Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts, Natural Science Class: Treatise, born in 1991).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.cvut.cz/en/history
- ↑ https://www.cvut.cz/en/the-rector-and-the-top-management-of-ctu
- ↑ https://usermap.cvut.cz/profile/ff109132-3d3a-4d00-affa-d8cea5a1f2ab
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 25, 2019 .
- ^ Adolf Siegl : The Prague German universities and their students in the years from 1870 to 1914 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 95-133, here p. 96 f.
- ^ Adolf Siegl: The closure of the German universities in Prague . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 95-104.
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