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184 ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 assistants and institutes, which would help the faculty achieve its goals swiftly. The proposals for personnel at the time show where Czech physi- cians were situated; many were active in universities outside the monarchy. The proposals included several Bohemian practitioners, scholars, and assis- tants from Vienna as well as two Czech émigré professors from the Russian Empire. Only for medical chemistry could no qualified Czech-speaking scholar be found, and a young Ruthenian assistant from Vienna, Ivan Horbačevs’kyj (Іван Горбачевський, Jan Horbaczewski), was appointed.35 Some of the proposed scholars were seen as unready for professorships, and in several cases temporary auxiliary professors were appointed instead of permanent professors.36 Other appointments did not succeed for financial reasons.37 But even with a limited number of professors, the faculty was officially inaugurated in 1883. The situation at the philosophical faculty was much simpler since sev- eral of the professors teaching there had already been active at the undivided University of Prague. Of the professors who chose the philosophical faculty at the Czech University, only a few had advanced along a normal route with faculty assistance. Most had been nominated by Leo Thun-Hohenstein and Josef Jireček, who did not really care for the faculty’s proposals. The Privatdozenten transferred to the Czech University in 1882 had mostly ha- bilitated in the second half of the 1870s. Further, another group of Czech scholars had been appointed to professorships after the division of the university had already been decided; they had previously taught at other Czech-language institutions in the city.38 In addition, the philosophical faculty at the Czech University had to ap- point a number of scholars from outside the institution. First, Privatdozenten who were recognized as Czechs but were working outside of Bohemia were proposed for professorships. Second, scholars working at other educational institutions, gymnasia, technical universities, and Czech scholarly organi- zations were appointed; they were often supported from within the faculty. These nominations included scholars who previously would have had no chance at the university but who were already widely known, having au- thored well-received publications in their respective fields, mostly in both Czech and German.39 Since the university did not have a full complement of institutes, as these had mostly gone to the German University, not all chairs were filled immediately. For example, the chair of practical astronomy at the Czech University came into being only in the 1890s, after the observatory