STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1648, sig. 109-4/1403

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English Translation

90w Liebwerd was separated and raised to an independent agricultural university.The originally also independent study for chemistry was abolished shortly before I took office as a self-employed department and transferred to the General Department. Thus, in integrating the General Department into the Faculty of Science, the university would lose 3 departments from its previous portfolio and be reduced from 7 departments to 4 departments. Of the 46 ordinary chairs, no less than l8 chairs would leave the association of the Technical University, leaving only 28 ordinary chairs. However, such a reduction in their current structure is completely unacceptable for the university. The fields of mathematical and natural sciences are an absolute necessity of life for technical and scientific studies. These areas, however, are of value as the main pillars of technical studies only if they are presented in a form which corresponds to the particular requirements of engineering studies. Mathematics, which we need as theoretical documents for engineering studies, is different from mathematics, which is needed as a link of the mental sciences of the university or also for the formation of the corresponding professions for the higher schools. The same applies to physics and chemistry. It is essential that representatives of these fields remain in constant contact with representatives of technical subjects in 19936.