The Faculty of Arts is one of the four founding faculties at Masaryk University in Brno; its creation was linked to the act which established the university in 1919. Due to difficulties with furnishing and staffing, teaching did not commence until 1921. Throughout the remainder of the interwar period, the institution was affected by serious material difficulties, most importantly the absence of suitable buildings for teaching, as a result of which the school almost fell victim to the government's economic interventions into university education on two occasions
