Palacký University Olomouc
After the Bohemian King Joseph II's reforms to the church in the 1770s it became a public university. University students and professors were  active in the Revolution of 1848  on the side of democratisation. Then the conservative king Francis Joseph I closed most of the university during the 1850s. Only the independent Faculty of Theology and the independent University Library stayed open. After the German invasion in 1939, all the Czech Universities were closed. It was reopened by an act of the Interim National Assembly in February 1946. This act also changed the name from University of Olomouc to Palacký University Olomouc, after František Palacký, a 19th-century Moravian historian and politician.