The foundation of Comenius University in Bratislava was closely linked with the needs of the new Czechoslovak state, which was established, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of October 1918. After the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic, almost all the members of the intelligentsia, loyal to the monarchy, left our territory leaving Slovakia in the position where it lacked its own layer of scholars. Therefore, the fundamental role of the new university, established by an act of law on 27th June 1919, was to educate a domestic intelligentsia for the key areas of life in Slovak society...