# The Czechs' Attitude toward Vilnia University

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/czechs-attitude-toward-vilnia-university/
- Published: 1924-06-13T18:05:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T21:00:44+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/adnosiny-chechau-da-vilienskaha-universytetu.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/otnoshyeniye-chyekhov-k-vilyenskomu-univyersityetu.md

> Pyatkevich, a medical student from Vilnia, could not enroll in medicine in Prague: the Czechs did not recognize a Vilnia certificate as equivalent to a university diploma.

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Francišak Pyatkevich, a student of the medical faculty of the Stefan Batory University of Vilnia, moved to Prague, wishing to enroll in medicine at the university there on the basis of a certificate he had received in Vilnia, the so-called "half-diploma." However, the Czechs held this certificate to be of no value, equivalent to the certificates of ordinary universities that the Czechs do not recognize.