Did your ancestors have a university degree? Find out using a new app ****************************************************************************************** * Did your ancestors have a university degree? Find out using a new app ****************************************************************************************** The Charles University Archive has launched an online app for searching for university doc "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/archiv/public/?lang=en"] . After putting scanned registries onl app users can now also search amongst the data of more than 24 thousand students and find ancestors were doctors of the university, or even how many academics came from the most re villages. Also online are scanned registries of doctors of the German University in Prague The app contains records of doctors of Charles University from the years 1882 to 1939, i.e division of the institution into Czech and German universities until the closing of the Cz by the Nazis. Personal data protection laws mean that post-war records will not be release yet. Name-based searches allow users to find out how many of their ancestors or namesakes gradu the university, when and from which faculty, where they came from, what religion they were occupations of their parents were. Amongst the other interesting features available to bot lay public are searches based on place names, faulty or year of end of study. Kafka, Brod and Cori – famous Germans online The scanned records of the German University in Prague from the years 1882-1945 are to be the first time. Currently these can only be leafed through like normal books; a search opt provided later. Similarly to the Czech registries, the German ones also record the graduations of a number persons, including the writers Franz Kafka and Max Brod, Nobel laureates Gerty Theresa Rad Ferdinand Cori and Josef Pfitzner, historian and Deputy Mayor of Prague during the Nazi oc Another innovation that will be appreciated primarily by researchers from abroad is the En the website [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/archiv/public/?lang=en"] . The ‘Students of Prague universities 1882-1945’ digitalisation project is a joint project Archive and the CU Institute for Computer Science, whose objective it is to gradually digi online registers, rigorous protocols, protocols on state exams and catalogues of undergrad Czech and German Universities in Prague, i.e. data on more than 100 thousand students. The project was initiated in the autumn of 2011 with the archiving of official university scanning of sixteen registries of doctors of the Czech University from the years 1882-1953 the Institute for Computer Science developed a database for the publication of these recor was launched in April 2012. More than a year after its launch, the website still enjoys the interest of researchers, r average of four thousand visitors every day, who each search an average 40 pages of digita material. It can be said, with only a slight exaggeration, that each of the digitalised pa available online has been displayed at least six times. This year the digitalisation project, which forms part of Charles University’s Long-Term P year 2011-2015, was supported by a grant from the Institutional Development Plan of the Cz Education, Youth and Sport, thanks to which it was possible to construct a digitalisation university archive, the chief component of which is a colour book scanner. Franz Kafka was awarded a double (Roman and canon) law degree in 1906 Max Brod ALSO GRADUATED FROM THE German faculty of law in 1907 Record of the graduation of Edvard Beneš in 1909 Karel Čapek became a doctor of philosophy in 1915 One Václav Hampl, namesake of the current Rector, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine i