Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, officially Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Czech: Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, ČZU) is a university in Prague, the Czech Republic, established in 1906. The basis of agricultural education in Czech lands dwells deep in the former Austrian Empire, more than two centuries ago. In 1788 a department of agriculture was set up at the Prague University. The first professors were pioneers of an advanced concept of education for agriculture. In 1812, the courses were transferred to the Technical Institute of Czech Estates and, in 1845, classes in all the agricultural sciences were offered to the young rural population. Independent studies of agriculture were set up at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in 1906, and the first agricultural engineers graduated in 1911.