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The University of Vienna is marking a remarkable milestone this year: 250 years since Czech was first taught there. In fact, Czech was introduced as a field of study in Vienna 18 years earlier than at any Czech University.
It was in 1775 when Josef Valentin Zlobicki, an Austrian lawyer, translator into Czech and linguist, was appointed as the world’s first university professor of Czech language and literature.
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Author: Libor Kukal, Ruth Fraňková