In 1804 the chair of Elementary Mathematics at Prague University became vacant and a selection procedure, which consisted of a written and an oral examination, was announced. Only Bernard Bolzano and Ladislav Jandera took part in it. Jandera was appointed to the chair, whereas Bolzano became Professor of “Religious Doctrine.” In this paper we examine the context of this Concursprüfung, the performance of both candidates and the outcome, based on a number of related papers preserved at the Czech National Archives. In addition to this, we publish for the first time, albeit only in the online version of this paper, the transcription and English translation of Bolzano's written examination.

1804 年，布拉格大学小学数学系的主席空缺，并宣布了由笔试和口试组成的选拔程序。只有伯纳德·博尔扎诺和拉迪斯拉夫·詹德拉参与其中。詹德拉被任命为主席，而博尔扎诺则成为“宗教学说”教授。在这篇论文中，我们根据保存在捷克国家档案馆的一些相关论文，研究了这次Concursprüfung的背景、候选人的表现和结果。除此之外，我们首次发布了博尔扎诺笔试的转录和英文翻译，尽管只是在本文的在线版本中。