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Notes to Chapter 3 ♦  331 the scholar proposed primo loco; in Prague in 1885, the dean recommended Max Grünert for the chair of Semitic languages (ÚDAUK, FF NU, Inv.č. 229, K/ XIVb, Kart. 11, Obsazování mimořádných profesur: [a] pro německou filologii [Jacob Minor, Hans Lambel, dr. Seuffert], [b] pro ang. Filologii [Alois Brandl]— společný spis, 29 December 1885). 113. The scholar appointed, Fritz Hartmann, a Privatdozent in Graz, had been proposed by the faculty secundo loco and ex aequo (in the same place). See AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 919, PA Fritz Hartmann, Z. 35079, 4 September 1907. 114. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1216, PA Ambros, Z. 8252, 2 September 1869. 115. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1211, PA Stark, 3 December 1880, Z. 4131, 19 November 1880, Z. 5739; and AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1056, PA Kleinwächter, Z. 14759, 13 September 1882. The church’s involvement, although not specified, was mentioned in most obituaries and sub- sequent encyclopedia articles, although I found no records in the press from this period. A similar conflict over the division of competences was mentioned also by Otto Franqué as a main reason for his leaving Prague in 1907. NA, MKV/R, inv.č. 2, fasz.95, PA Franque, Z. 30072, undated. 116. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1208, PA Brandl, Z. 16454, 18 September 1886, repeated on 22 September 1886, repeated on 1 October 1886. 117. Richard Schober, Theodor Freiherr von Kathrein (1842–1916), Landeshauptmann von Tirol: Briefe und Dokumente zur katholisch­ konservativen Politik um die Jahrhundertwende (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1992); on a similar influence on the part of Vorarlberg governor Adolf Rhomberg, see Alois Niederstätter, “Feuerstein ist nach wie vor bei den Veilchenblauen: Die Briefe von Richard Wollek an den Vorarlberger Landeshauptmann Adolf Rhomberg (1897/98),” Alemannia Studens: Mitteilungen des Vereins für Vorarlberger Bildungs­ und Studenten­ Geschichte 2 (1992): 13–64. 118. For L’viv, see the writings of the provincial government on the situation: AGAD, MWiO, Sygn. 112u, PA Żmurko, Z. 6292, 21 September 1871. For Prague, see the notes in the nomination act for Ivan Horbačevs’kyj: AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1209, PA Horbachevsky, Z. 13251, 15 August 1883. 119. For example, for the chair of histology in L’viv in 1896, the commission con- sisted of one member of the provincial government, a deputy of the Galician Education Authority (Rada Szkolna Krajowa), a provincial referent for health issues, and two deputies of the University of L’viv. AGAD, MWiO, Sygn. 405u, Z. 467, 16 January 1896. 120. AGAD, MWiO, Sygn. 118u, PA Askenazy, Z. 1838, 27 June 1906. On Askenazy’s worldview, see Piotr Wróbel, “Szymon Askenazy,” in Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, ed. Peter Brock, Piotr Wróbel, and John Stanley (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 221–45. 121. On the embryologist Édouard van Beneden (proposed primo et unico loco by the