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346 ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 17. According to official Habsburg statistics, the majority of the Jews in Galicia spoke Polish as their common language. See Theodor Haas, “Die sprachlichen Verhältnisse der Juden in Österreich,” Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden 11, no. 1 (1915): 1–12, tables on p. 3. 18. The habilitation of the historian Volodymyr Myl’kovyč (Володимир Милькович, also Wladimir Milkowicz) was rejected in 1890 because of his “inadequate knowledge of the Polish language”: DALO, F. 26, Op. 7, Spr. 321, Z. 262, 4 December 1890. Klymentij/Klym Hankevyč (Климентій/Клим Ганкевич, better known as Klemens/Clemens Hankiewicz) was denied habilitation in L’viv and Cracow, owing to his lack of Polish-language publications: DALO, F. 26, Op. 7, Spr. 146; DALO, F. 26, Op. 7, Spr. 132, 12 February 1869; Z. 419, 15 June 1869; and AUJ, WF II 121, PA Hankiewicz. More on Hankevyč can be found in Vjachaslaw Shal’kjevich (Вячаслаў Шалькевіч, Wiaczesław Szalkiewicz), introduction to Zarys filozofii słowiańskiej, by Klemens Hankiewicz (Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2011). Zarys filozofii słowiańskiej is the Polish translation of Grundzüge der slavischen Philosophie (1869). 19. AGAD, MWiO, Sygn. 403u, PA Kośmiński, Z. 35837, 15 December 1906 (the final decision of the faculty), Z. 43794, 17 January 1906 (Jan Prus’s expert opinion), and Z. 43794, 11 September 1906 (the provincial government’s support for the claim that Bikeles was not fluent in Polish). See also Eufemiusz Józef Herman, Historia neurologii polskiej (Wrocław: Zakład narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Polska Akademia Nauk, 1975), 152. 20. In 1852 Streng had been nominated by Thun-Hohenstein for the chair of gyne- cology for midwives, also because of his knowledge of Czech: AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1211, PA Streng, Z. 6683/546, 28 July 1852. 21. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1211, Z. 7731, 30 August 1870. 22. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1208, PA Eiselt, Z. 9990, 18 June 1881. The scholars proposed by the faculty included two Bohemian scholars who later went to the German University. On Eiselt’s biography, see Ludmila Hlaváčková, “Čtyřnásobné Jubileum Bohumila Eiselta (1831–1908),” Časopis lékařův českých 150, no. 5 (2011): 619–23. 23. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1208, PA Gussenbauer, Z. 21118, 15 April 1878. 24. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1211, PA Weiss, Z. 17116, 4 November 1881. 25. See Helena Kokešová, Eduard Albert: Příspěvek k životopisu a edice korespon­ dence (Prague: Scriptorium: Výzkumné centrum pro dějiny vědy, Masarykův ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2004), 22–27; see also the critical assess- ment of Weiss in Jan Šváb, “I. česká chirurgická kliniká a její vliv na rozvoj chirugie v Českích zemích,” in 120 let 1. české chirurgické kliniky 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, ed. Pavel Kleiner (Prague: Karolinum, 2002), esp. 15–17. 26. Most notably, the forensic physician Josef Maschka published in Czech in his early years but from 1865 on only in German.