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The Faculty of Philosophy is the oldest faculty of the University of Zagreb, which dates its founding to 1669. Philosophy and humanities were taught at the university from the very beginning, while a separate faculty first came into existence in 1776 when the university was divided into Faculties of Philosophy, Theology and Law.
In 1874 the modern University of Zagreb was officially established with four faculties: Law, Theology, Philosophy and Medicine. The Faculty of Philosophy was called the Mudroslovni fakultet and had the following chairs:
Philosophy
History
Croatian history
Slav philology
Classical philology – Latin
Classical philology – Greek
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The faculty also served as the general scientific faculty, and from 1876 it taught geology, botany, physics, mathematics, and chemistry; from 1877 zoology; from 1882 pharmacy; from 1883 geography.
In 1893, the Chair of Pedagogy was instituted. The Study of Archeology started in 1893. The Chair of German Philology was created in 1895. The Chair of Indo-Germanology was created in 1908, and transformed into the Study of Indology in 1962. The Seminar on Romance Philology first started in 1920. The Chair of Ethnology was created in 1924/1927. The Art History Seminar was created in 1928. The Chair of Psychology was created in 1929. The English Seminar was created in 1935.
Mathematics, pharmacy and other sciences started to split off in several stages, with the creation of separate mathematics and pharmaceutical departments in 1928 (when the faculty was renamed to its current name, Filozofski fakultet), and the splitting off of individual departments into separate faculties in 1942, 1946 and finally in 1963.
The Institute of Phonetics was founded in 1954. The Chair of General Linguistics and Comparative Literature was created in 1956. The Chair of Sociology was created in 1963 (the Faculty of Law had one since 1906). The Study of Swedish started in 1985. In 1989, the Institute for Information Sciences was founded. In 1994, the Study of Hungarology started.
In 2009, the faculty was occupied by students who demanded free education, dubbed Blokada. The peaceful occupation started on April 20, 2009, and ended on May 24. The second occupation started on November 23, 2009, and ended nearly two weeks later.
From Wikipedia’s article on Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4