Abstract
In the second half of the 19th century, the government was under increasing pressure from the movement for establishment of teaching the Czech language, which corresponded to the effort of Czech politics for language equality in the area of administration, legislation and jurisdiction in the Czech lands. After national division of Karl-Ferdinand University the Czech Law Faculty tried to abolish exclusively German or German-Austrian type of legal education.
Academic Assembly proposed to appoint Jaromír Čelakovský, the famous historian and archivist, as associate professor and he was given the rank of associate professor of Czech legal history. In this way, the discipline of Czech national legal history was established as elective and later compulsory subject and Čelakovský became the first extraordinary and later regular professor of this subject.
Thanks to this, the conditions for development history science of national legal culture were created and Czech students gained awareness of the existence of the Czech statehood which was one of the conditions for restoration the sovereign Czechoslovak state.