Comenius University in Bratislava
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The Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Univerzita Komenského in Bratislava, is a university in Bratislava, Slovakia. It is not only the oldest purely Slovak -speaking university, but with about 20,000 students, the largest in the country.
History
As a historical predecessor of today's University Universitas Istropolitana which applies in Bratislava, founded in 1465 by Matthias Corvinus. For the 20th century, also founded in 1912 the Royal Hungarian Elisabeth University is (Hungarian: Magyar Pozsonyi Királyi Erzsébet Tudomány Egyetem ) call.
The Comenius University was amended by Decision of the Czechoslovak Parliament on 27 June 1919 as ' Czechoslovak State University in Bratislava ' ( slovak: Československé štátna univerzita ) was founded. In November 1919 John Amos Comenius was determined as a patron.
At the same time is still under construction Hungarian Elisabeth University was closed, the Hungarian law school was granted a first three-year and later shortened to two years transition period.
The Comenius University participated in the academic year 1919/20, the teaching on, but for now only one, of the medical faculty. The first rector officiated the Czech pathologist and internist Kristian Hynek. At the beginning of the academic year 1921/22, the legal and the philosophical faculty were then opened.
The professors of the university initially came almost exclusively from the Czech part of the country, the lectures were held in Czech and Slovak. The question of national orientation of the university was in the 1920s to a point of contention between the Czechoslovak government and the Slovak People's Party.
After the Munich Agreement in the fall of 1938, the Comenius University was subordinated to the Ministry of Education of the Autonomous Slovakia. The majority of Czech professors was dismissed. The university now received the designation ' Slovak University '. After the establishment of the First Slovak Republic took over in January 1940 Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka the rector. In the same year the planned already since 1919 Natural Sciences was opened.
With the re- establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1945, the university was subjected to purges, first criterion was the attitude of the Tiso regime, and later intensified after 1948, then the setting for the Communist Party. 1947 opened the new pedagogical faculty of the University, later followed by other departments. Since 1954, the university again bears the name ' Comenius University '.
1990 were incorporated into the University of the Protestant and Catholic theological faculty, in addition, two new faculties of management as well as for social and economic sciences.
Faculties
The Comenius University is organized in 13 faculties.
- Medical school
- Jessenius Medical Faculty ( in Martin)
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of mathematics, physics and computer science
- Faculty of Sports Studies
- Faculty of Education
- Evangelical Theological Faculty
- Roman Catholic Theological Cyril and Methodius Faculty
- Faculty of Management
- Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
Faculty of Science