BRATISLAVA - THE CAPITAL OF SLOVAKIA AND THE CENTENARY OF ITS FIRST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

The city (population - 500 000) has all the advantages of a medium sized multicultural town with long, colorful history. Convenient location on the Danube river, a part of the 3 capitals triangle Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest)

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UNIVERSITAS (Academia) ISTROPOLITANA 1465 (1467) - the first on the territory of Slovakia The spiritual ancestor of Comenius University

ELISABETH UNIVERSITY – 1912 (opened in 1914)

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NamedaKertheEmpressElisabethofAustria(thewifeoftheEmperorFranzJosefI).1919–movedtoPécs,Hungary

1918/1919 – new states new universiUes

1919Czechoslovakia•  ComeniusUniversityBraVslava•  MasarykUniversityBrnoPoland•  AdamMickiewiczUniversityinPoznań

Slovenia•  UniversityofLjubljanaLatvia•  UniversityofLatviaRiga

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY FROM ONE EMPIRE TO MANY STATES

The Empire in 1914 Current political boundaries

The first comprehensive national university 24 000 students are studying at 13 faculties in more than 800 study programmes www.uniba.sk Comenius University accommodates over 16% of the total number of university students in Slovakia over 26% of the country’s PhD students. over 23% of all international students in Slovakia 11,9 % of students out of total are international from more that 70 countries

COMENIUS UNIVERSITY FOUNDED 1919

Jan Amos Komensky “the teacher of the nations” 1592 (Moravia) - 1670(Amsterdam)

philosopher theologist and education reformer

COMENIUS UNIVERSITY in BraUslava 1919 – 2019 JohannesAmosComenius1592–1670

ComeniusUniversitymainbuilding

PaXern of Centenary CommemoraUve Medal - 2019

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COMENIUS UNIVERSITY IN BRATISLAVA

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ACADEMIAISTROOLITANA

•  Foundedin1465byPopePaulIIontherequestoftheKingMa;hiasCorvinus

•  ChanceloroftheuniversityArchbishopofEsztergomJohannesVitezofSrednaaskedforthehoroscopetofindoutthemostsuitableVmefortheuniversityopening–1467

•  Closedaround1490–followingthedeathofMa;hiasCorvinusduetolackoffunds

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COMENIUS UNIVERSITY in BraUslava 1919 – 2019 JohannesAmosComenius(1592–1670)

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PaXern of Centenary CommemoraUve Medal - 2019

ELISABETH UNIVERSITY – established in 1912 (opened in 1914)

Rectorate,financeoffice,andLawSchoolbuildingofElisabethUniversity,todaytheseatoftheComeniusUniversVtyFacultyofRomanCatholicTheologyofCyrilandMethodius

NamedaKertheEmpressElisabethofAustria(thewifeoftheEmperorFranzJosefI).1919–movedtoPécsHungary

1918/1919 – new states new universiUes 1919

Czechoslovakia•  ComeniusUniversityBraVslava•  MasarykUniversityBrnoPoland•  AdamMickiewiczUniversityinPoznań

Slovenia•  UniversityofLjubljanaLatvia•  UniversityofLatviaRiga