Back in Time to Charles University Professors and Doctors of 1948

Portrait of Professor Bohumil Bydzovsky, vice rector of Charles University, standing beside bust of Czech hero Tomas Garrigue Masaryk. Professor if algebraic geometry on the Faculty of Science and one of Europe’s most outstanding mathematicians. He was arrested by Germans in 1942. He also authored a book.

Portrait of Dr. Arthur Matzner, Secretary of Charles University, in his office.

Portrait of Dr. Arnold Jirasek, head of the Charles University Medical Faculty’s Clinic of Surgery, in amphitheater of the clinic.

Portrait of Dr. Josef Cancik, professor of Public Hygegiene in the Medical Faculty at Charles University.

Portrait of Bedrich Hrozny, professor of History at Charles University. Professor of History, he specialized in the history of the ancient Orient and Assyriology. A member of the University staff since 1919, he was famous for deciphering the Hittite language. During the occupation, he concentrated on deciphering Proto-Indian and Creten texts.

Portrait of Dr. Jaroslav Heyrovsky, head of Physical Chemistry at Charles University, with his invention the polarograph, a device for the microanalysis of various solutions used in medicine, metallurgy, food study and other branches of science.

Bohumil Bydzovsky, rector of Charles University, signing diplomas in his office.

Portrait of Dr. Edouard Cech, professor of Mathematics on the Faculty of Science at Charles University.

Portrait of Charles University Law professor Jan Krcmar.

Portrait of Charles University Biology professor Jan Belahradek. He was persecuted by the Germans because he had exploited Nazi racial theories. In a concentration camp he fought a typhus epidemic. He is one of Europe’s great scientists.

Portrait of Dr. Karel Englis, rector of Charles University, standing beside bust of Czech hero Tomas Garrigue Masaryk. Dr. Engris was Minister of Finance under six Czechoslovak governments and was high on the German blacklist. In seclusion during the war, he wrote nine new books on finance.

Portrait of Charles University Mathematics professor, Dr. Emil Schonbaum.

Dr. Albert Prazak, Charles University professor of Czech Literature, in hospital bed where he is recuperating from a stroke. Prazak was leader of the underground during the German occupation and of the armed revolution which freed Prague in May 1945.

Portrait of Dr. Josef Charvat, head of Clinic of Internal Medicine at Charles University.

Portrait of Milada Paulova, professor of Byzantine Studies and History of Slav Peoples at Charles University. She is the only woman who has achieved a full professorship at the university.