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the
announcement
of
your
lectures
for this
semester
and
your taking
over
the
directorship
of
the
Institute
for
Theoretical
Physics.
Your
teaching
duties
will consist in the
regular representation
of
your
nominal
specialty
according
to
the
currently
prevailing
regulations, and,
in
particular,
in the
obligation
to
lecture
on
it five
hours
weekly
each
semester,
and
to
hold
a
collegium
publicum
on
special
areas
of
your
field
every
third
semester.
The
viceroy
of Bohemia
will be
asked that
beginning
with
1
April
1911,
he
make
available to
you, according
to
regulation,
the
salary
prescribed
for
Ordinary
Professors,
i.e.,
the annual
salary
of
six
thousand four hundred
(6400)
crowns
together
with
the
annual
supplementary
allowance
of
one
thousand four hundred
seventy-two (1472)
crowns.
At
the
same
time,
I choose to
put
you
in
charge
of
the
seminar for theoretical
physics
at
the German
University
in
Prague,
and
I
approve
for
your
efforts in
that
connection
an
annual remuneration
of
eight
hundred
(800) crowns,
which will be
remitted
to
you
in two
equal installments, at
the end
of each
semester,
through
the
viceroy
of Bohemia.
As
compensation
for the service tax
that
you
have to
pay,
as
well
as a
contribution
toward
your
expenses
for
moving
from
Zurich
to
Prague,
I
am
approving
an
amount
of
two
thousand
(2000) crowns,
half
of
it to
be
made
available
upon
the
assumption
of
your
teaching
duties,
and
the other half
after
the start of the
year
1912, by
the
viceroy
of
Bohemia
upon your personal
request.
Finally,
let
me
note
that
your
appointment is contingent
on
the
acquisition
of
Austrian
citizenship;
you
will
therefore
want to
initiate immediate
steps to
obtain
a
release
from
your current
citizenship.[4]
The
Minister
of
Religion
and Education
Stürgkh
Was
administered the
prescribed
oath of
office
on
23
August
1911
by
His Serene
Highness
the
Imperial
Royal Viceroy
Count Franz
Thun-Hohenstein.
von
Braun
Councillor
of
the
Viceroyalty[5]
246. To
Lucien Chavan
Zurich, 17 January 1911
Dear
Mr. Chavan:
First
of
all,
I
wish
to
extend
to
your
wife and
you
my
heartfelt condolences
on
the
death of
your
father-in-law.[1] We
often wondered whether
this
poor
man
had
yet
been
relieved of
his
suffering.
Perhaps
Mrs.
Chavan's
poor
sister
was even worse
off
than
he
was.[2]
Such
a
difficult existence defies
one's
imagination.