, who donated the mace now held by Innbruck to the University of Olomouc in 1588 In the 1850s the Habsburgs gradually closed the
University of Olomouc as a consequence of the
Olomouc students' and professors' participation on the
1848 revolutions and the
Czech National Revival. The ceremonial equipment of the University of Olomouc was then transferred to the
University of Innsbruck. The original Olomouc
ceremonial maces from the 1580s are now used as maces of the
University of Innsbruck, its faculties and of the Medical University of Innsbruck. The Medical University uses the ceremonial mace of
Olomouc Faculty of Philosophy from 1588 and Olomouc Rector's Chain made sometime between 1566 and 1573. The ceremonial mace currently used by the Medical University of Innsbruck was given by
Olomouc bishop
Stanislav Pavlovský to the
University of Olomouc in ca. 1588. It is 163 centimeters high, it is made of silver and has gold plating. It bears inscription S. P. E. O. (Stanislaus Pawlowski Episcopus Olomucii) and other ornaments. Within the framework of the University Act of 2002, the medical faculty was separated from the Leopold-Franzens University, and the Medical University of Innsbruck was established as a university in its own right. Today, the Med-Uni has some 3,000 students and 1,800 employees. It is the most important medical research and training facility in western Austria and the home university of many Tyroleans, South Tyroleans and students from the Province of Vorarlberg. == Nobel Prize laureates ==