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The university was actually opened in 1349.

The university was sectioned into parts called nations: the Bohemian, Bavarian, Polish and Saxon.

The Bohemian natio included Bohemians, Moravians, southern Slavs, and Hungarians ; the Bavarian included Austrians, Swabians, natives of Franconia and of the Rhine provinces ; the Polish included Silesians, Poles, Russians ; the Saxon included inhabitants of the Margravate of Meissen, Thuringia, Upper and Lower Saxony, Denmark, and Sweden.

Ethnically Czech students made 16 – 20 % of all students.

Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice took an active part in the foundation by obliging the clergy to contribute and became a chancellor of the university ( i. e., director or manager ).