Abstract
The universities belong to the main centres of knowledge and education also in the 19th century.
The inspiring intellectuals mediated their knowledge and opinions to their successors. The students looked for their position in the establishing civil society because the university education had become the way for the improving of the social status and spread to the broader population. To the important universities in the Habsburg monarchy belongs also the university in Prague. It wasthe oldest university in the monarchy with a great tradition, but it also struggled with regionalism, especially in the comparison to University of Vienna. In winter semester 1855/1856 more than 90 % of students (except for medicine faculty) came from Bohemia and
Moravia and only a small minority came to Prague from further regions, mostly Saxony,
Prussia, Hungary or Austrian lands.
This paper discovers the experience of this students with living and studying in late 1840s in
Prague. They spent there an important part of their life and it could influence the. When their study was successful, the academic degree made possible many kinds of the good career. But there is also mental influence, for example the approach to the liberalism or Czech national movement. This influence played an important role in the life of ethnic Czech but also for other students who can gained their own experience with this phenomenon only due to their stay in
Prague. This experience is studied through the concept the history of everyday life. It contains the visited lectures, living in Prague and contact with the state bureaucracy and police.