Deans since 1623

Medicine was taught at the Prague university probably since its foundation. The earliest surviving records of examinations in medicine date to 1353. Nevertheless, for about two decades after the university’s foundation, a medical school existed more in name than in reality. At that time, several professors appointed from the ranks of royal physicians taught a handful of students in their own residences. A faculty of medicine was established as a separate corporation within the Prague university somewhat later and only since that time could it also elect its deans. The faculty of medicine was headed by deans since late 1360s: until that time, the individual faculties were governed either by the university’s rector or vice rector. A dean became the official representative of a faculty, he was in charge of the curriculum and instruction, and administered the property of the faculty and the college. Deans had also judicial powers and could judge members of the faculty corporation. They were elected from the ranks of masters who gave lectures, the magistri actu regentes.

History of the Charles University I, 1347/48–1622, Karolinum Publishers, Prague 1995, ISBN 80-7066-968-3

Note:
Sources pertaining to the period of 1622–1654 are oftentimes so fragmented they do not allow for a reliable reconstruction of the sequence of deans and periods at which they held the office. It is moreover highly likely that especially at lay faculties, there were years when no dean was elected at all.

Deans 1623–1883

1623(?)–36 František Roia de Aquista Pace
1638–54 Jan Marcus Marci
1654–57 Jan Marcus Marci z Kronlandu
1657–59 Jakub Forberger
1660–61 Jan Marcus Marci z Kronlandu
1662 Šebestián Zeidler
1663–64 Jan Marcus Marci z Kronlandu
1665 Mikuláš Franchimont z Franckenfeldu
1666–67 Jakub Forberger
1668–69 Šebestián Zeidler
1670 Karel Kirchmayer
1671–73 Mikuláš Franchimont z Franckenfeldu
1674–75 Jakub Forberger
1676 Šebestián Zeidler
1677 Mikuláš Franchimont z Franckenfeldu
1678 Jakub Forberger
1679 Mikuláš Franchimont z Franckenfeldu
1680–81 Jakub Forberger
1682 Mikuláš Franchimont z Franckenfeldu
1683–84 Jakub Jan Václav Dobřenský de Nigro Ponte
1685–86 Jan František Löw
1687 Šebestián Kristián Zeidler
1688 Šimon Alois Tudecius
1689 Šebestián Kristián Zeidler
1690 Šimon Tudecius de Monte Galea
1691–95 Jan František Löw
1696 Jan Antonín Cassinis de Bugella
1697–98 Jan František Löw
1699 Jan Antonín Cassinis de Bugella
1700 Jan František Löw z Erlsfeldu
1701–2 Jan Antonín Cassinis de Bugella
1703 Jan Kašpar Voigt
1704–5 Jan František Löw z Erlsfeldu
1706 Jan Antonín Cassinis de Bugella
1707–11 Jan František Löw z Erlsfeldu
1712–13 Jan Antonín Cassinis de Bugella
1714–16 Jan František Löw z Erlsfeldu
1717–18 František Crusius z Krausenbergu
1718–23 Jan František Löw z Erlsfeldu
1724–25 Šebestián Fuchs
1726 Ferdinand Leonard Meisner
1727 Jan Jakub Gelhausen
1728–29 Ferdinand Leonard Meisner
1730–31 Jan Gelhausen
1732 Ludvík Jindřich Voss
1733–35 Ferdinand Leonard Meisner
1736 Jan Jakub Gelhausen
1737–39 Jakub Smith
1740 Ludvík Jindřich Voss
1741 Jan Ignác Mayer
1742–43 Jan František Groner
1744 Ludvík Jindřich Voss
1745–46 Jan Ignác Mayer
1747 Jan František Griner
1748 Jan Antonín Scrinci
1749 František Ferdinand Kirchmayer
1750 Jan Ignác Mayer
1751 František Ferdinand Kirchmayer
1752 František Du Toy
1753 František Ferdinand Kirchmayer
1754 František Josef Du Toy
1755 Václav Jan Paschkal
1756 Jan Antonín Scrinci
1757 Jan Křtitel Boháč
1758 David Becher
1759 Mořic Mayer z Mayersbachu
1760–61 Jan Křtitel Boháč
1762–64 Mořic Mayer z Mayersbachu
1765–68 Josef Wignet
1769–73 Mořic Mayer z Mayersbachu
1774–75 František Du Toy
1776–78 Leonard Antonín Verbeck
1779 František Du Toy
1780–82 Šebestián Oechy
1783–84 Josef Jindřich Bauer
1785 Josef Bohumír Mikan
1786–87 Jan Křtitel Zauschner
1788 Antonín Michelič
1789 Jiří Procháska
1790 Antonín Sebald
1791 Karel Ferdinand Arnold
1792 Josef Mikan
1793 Jan Křtitel Zauschner
1794–96 Václav Langswert
1797–98 Josef Bohumír Mikan
1799 Antonín Sebald
1800–2 Josef Rottenberger
1803 Václav Langswert
1804 Antonín Michelič
1805–7 Václav Langswert
1808–10 Josef Rottenberger
1811–13 Jan Lipavský
1814 František Müller
1815–16 Jan Havrlík
1817 Václav Havrlík
1818–19 Jan Theobald Held
1820–22 František Wünsch
1823–25 Jan Theobald Held
1826–28 František Wünsch
1829–30 Ondřej Duchek
1831–34 František Wünsch
1835–37 Leopold Schirmer
1838–40 František Ramisch
1841 Leopold Wander
1842 Leopold Wander z Grünwaldu
1843 Leopold Wander, ryt. z Grünwaldu
1844–46 Josef Reisich
1847 Josef Ryba
1848–49 Josef Arnošt Ryba
1850–57 Ignác ryt. Nádherný
1857–59 Matyáš Popel
1859–61 Josef Halla
1861–64 Vincenc Alexandr Bochdalek
1864–67 Josef Blažina
1867–69 Emanuel Seidl
1869–72 Josef Hasner, ryt. z Arthy
1872–76 Josef Maschka
1876–77 Ferdinand Weber, ryt. z Ebenhofu
1877–78 Hugo ryt. Kremer-Auenrode
1878–79 Hugo Huppert
1879–80 Edwin Klebs
1880–81 August Breisky
1881–82 Karel Toldt
1882–83 Karl Gussenbauer

Note:
We list the given names of academic dignitaries in a Czech form, the only exception being cases where the original form of the name in connection with the surname is established and commonly used. We do not list this form of names retrospectively but only since the date their use is attested in sources, which is relevant especially in cases where a Czech transcription is unclear.

Dějiny Univerzity Karlovy, vol. II, 1622–1802, Karolinum Press, Prague 1996, ISBN 80-7184-050-5

Deans of the Faculty of Medicine of the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, 1882–1918

Deans of the German Faculty of Medicine of the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, 1882-1918

1882–83 Karl Gussenbauer
1883–84 Philipp Knoll
1884–85 Ewald Hering
1885–86 Alfred Přibram
1886–87 Hans Chiari
1887–88 Philipp Knoll
1888–89 Franz Hoffmeister
1889–90 Hubert Sattler
1890–91 Karl Rabl
1891–92 Arnold Pick
1892–93 Sigmund Mayer
1893–94 Isidor Schnabel
1894–95 Rudolf Ritter Jaksch von Wartenhorst
1895–96 Alfons Edler von Rosthorn
1896–97 Hans Chiari
1897–98 Paul Dittrich
1898–99 Anton Wölfler
1899–1900 Wilhelm Czermak
1900–1 Ferdinand Hueppe
1901–2 Karel Hugo Huppert
1902–3 Johannes Gad
1903–4 Josef Philipp Pick
1904–5 Julius Pohl
1905–6 Alfred Přibram
1906–7 Ewald Hering
1907–8 Richard Ritter von Zeynek
1908–9 Sigmund Mayer
1909–10 Anton Elschnig
1910–11 Rudolf Ritter Jaksch von Wartenhorst
1911–12 Friedrich Kleinhans
1912–13 Franz Hofmann
1913–15 Otto Grosser
1915–16 Alfred Kohn
1916–17 Wilhelm Wiechowski
1917–18 Artur Biedl

Deans of the Faculty of Philosophy of the German University in Prague, 1918–1945

Dějiny Univerzity Karlovy, vol. IV, 1918–1990, Karolinum Press, Prague 1998, ISBN 80-7184-539-6

Deans of Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University, 1918–1953

Note:
In 1953, the Faculty of Medicine split in the Faculty of General Medicine, Faculty of Paediatric Medicine, and Medical Faculty for Hygiene.

Deans of the Faculty of General Medicine of the Charles University, 1953–1990

Note:
In 1990, the Faculty of General Medicine changed its name to the 1^st Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University.

Deans of the First Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University since 1990