Act on the division of Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague into the Czech and German universities was signed by the emperor on 28 February 1882. Czech Faculty of Medicine was able to start education only in the school year 1882/83, one year after the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Arts.
It was necessary to establish all institutes of theoretical medicine and some clinical departments, because German professors transferred their clinics to the German University, which the Act allowed. Celebration of the beginning of the teaching at the Czech Faculty of Medicine was imposing and it was described in the Journal of Czech Physicians and in the daily papers.