100th anniversary of the opening of the Hlava institute.

Abstract

The paper comemmorates a centenary of construction of the current building for the Czech Institute for Pathological Anatomy (First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague) at Albertov, Prague. Project for the building was being developed since 1911, the construction works began three years later only to be interrupted by the onset of the WWI. The final inspection was carried out in 1921. The building served not just the Institute for Pathological Anatomy, but also Institute for Forensic Medicine as well as Institute for Microbiology and Serology. The Hlavas institute is considered to be an exceptional example of a modern interwar medical facility in the central Europe.