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            A reference in 1360 statutes of the Prague university is commonly believed to be the first

            the existence of a university archive in Prague. A central (rectorial) archive kept docume
            deeds and charters, attesting to the legal status and properties belonging to the universi
            list of the university’s documents was made, probably for reasons of property administrati

            After the Battle at the White Mountain, the ‘fiscus’ (university treasury) was together wi
            privileges and other archival materials sealed and in the following year handed over to Je
            in the nearby Clementinum [ URL "http://www.klementinum.com/index.php/en/history"] . An im

            point in the history of the Prague university archive came with the Theresian reforms, whe
            rescript of 1755 specified how the university is supposed to proceed in managing its archi

            For a long time afterwards, the archive was managed by the university syndic T. A. Putzlac
            "https://nmcentral.kpsys.cz/authorities/13100"] . In early 1820s, most of the hitherto fra
            the archive were merged and moved to a room on the Carolinum ground floor.

            After the split of the Prague university into a Czech and a German university in 1882, the
            archive was managed by the German university, while the Czech one was granted the right of
            use’. Adolf Bachmann, professor of history, was appointed university archivist and it was 

            this time made a new inventory of the archival material in his care.
            ‘The issue of the archive’ remained a point of contention in the not fully resolved relati
            Czech and the German university even after the archive was handed to the care of the Czech

            on 29 October 1918. In 1934, the start of work on the reconstruction of the Carolinum was 
            the archive was moved to facilities in the new building of the Faculty of Law of the Charl
            After the occupation of the Czech Lands by Nazi Germany in 1939, the university archive wa

            entrusted to the care of the German University. At the end of the war, a relatively large 
            archival materials was lost: it was removed during the evacuation of the German University
            remains missing until this day.

            In May 1945, Prof. Václav Vojtíšek was appointed head of the university archive. The Insti
            History of Charles University, a scientific institute focusing on the research of history 
            University, was founded in 1958. In late 1960s, the archive moved from provisory facilitie

            of the Faculty of Law into a reconstructed building within the Carolinum compound, where i
            today. In 1970, the Institute of the History of Charles University was after a previous in
            the State Security abolished and transformed into the Archive of Charles University, which

            lost the status of a scientific institution. After the fall of the Communist regime, a sci
            researching the history of the Charles University was reinstated and since that time, the 
            archive is one of the two departments of the Institute of the History of Charles Universit

            Charles University.