"Ételîh fúncho dero uuârhéite. lóskêt târínne. dér fóne dero ánablâsentûn lêro erchícchet uuírt" : On Diachrony in Study Programs of German Studies after the Division of the Prague University in 1882
Abstract
After 1882, the development of the University of Prague and its division reflected the situation of Czech and German society in the Czech Lands. While German Studies at the German university of Prague since 1882, when the University of Prague was divided into two autonomous - German and Czech - institutions, continued its pedagogical and scientific activities, it was necessary to establish German Studies at the Czech university of Prague.
Despite the progressive specialization of German Studies in German language and literature and the following internal differentiation of German Studies into older and newer German language and literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, great attention was traditionally paid to the older German language and literature in the curriculum of German Studies. The teaching here focused mainly on the interpretation of Gothic, Old and Middle High German texts from a linguistic and literary point of view.
After 1900, the content of diachronic courses changed for German Germanists in favor of prehistory, dialectology and onomastics, and for Czech Germanists it was directed towards German-Czech language contacts, especially in the lexicon. These changes in the teaching profile and scholarly area were related not only to the development of German Studies, but also to social changes, especially in the 1930s and 1940s.