[2] It is named after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of an independent Czechoslovakia as well as the leader of the movement for a second Czech university.

Masaryk University was founded on 28 January 1919 with four faculties: Law, Medicine, Science, and Arts.

In this context, he pointed out that the only Czech university at that time needed a competitive institution for its development.)

Both faculties eventually survived until 17 November 1939 when the whole university was closed following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

A number of professors of Masaryk University were executed or tortured; for example, the Faculty of Science lost one quarter of its teaching staff.

[4] The renewal of university life after the end of World War II was interrupted by the Communist takeover.

The place has various academic functions, hosting official university ceremonies as well as lectures and conferences.

The faculty is housed in a building originally intended for the university's campus on Veveří Street.

The faculty offers a wide range of programs in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geography, anthropology, and geology at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.

The faculty offers numerous programs in languages, literature, history, philosophy, psychology, and the arts at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels, through its various departments and institutes.

It offers programs in economics, financial business, management, public administration, and regional development at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.

It offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs and has a university sports center at Pod Hradem Gym.

[27] The Technology Transfer Office of Masaryk University was established in 2005 and aims to put research results into practice and support and facilitate cooperation between the scientific community and industry.

[34] It puts "a great deal of emphasis on international cooperation with prestigious foreign universities and [other] research institutions".

The most accomplished scientists include astronomer Jiří Grygar and Luboš Kohoutek, mathematician Otakar Borůvka and František Wolf, psychiatrist Leo Eitinger, sociologist Miloslav Petrusek, paediatric geneticist Renata Laxova and anthropologist Jaroslav Malina.

Paleontologist Josef Augusta, who together with illustrator Zdeněk Burian created accurate reconstructions representing all forms of prehistoric life.

Alumni politicians include former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Nečas, former Governor of South Moravian Region Michal Hašek, former Minister of Health Tomáš Julínek or as of 2014, the leader of Czech Green Party Ondřej Liška.

Alumni also include director František Vláčil, playwright Milan Uhde, composer Antonín Tučapský and poets Jan Skácel and Ivan Blatný.

Athlete Šárka Kašpárková and ice hockey players Jiří Holík and Josef Augusta also attended the university.