Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Template:Infobox German University Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was named for the German writer Friedrich Schiller in 1934.
As of 2004, the university has around 19,000 students enrolled and 340 professors. Its current rector, Klaus Dicke, is the 317th rector in the history of the university.
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Organisation
The university is organised into the following ten faculties:
- theology
- jurisprudence
- economics and business administration
- philosophy
- social and behavioural sciences
- mathematics and computer science
- physics and astronomy
- chemical and earth sciences
- biology and pharmacy
- medicine
History
The elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony first thought of a plan to establish a university at Jena in 1547 while he was being held captive by emperor Charles V. The plan was put into motion by his three sons and, after having obtained a charter from the emperor Ferdinand I, the university was established on February 2, 1558.
Prior to the 20th century, University enrollment peaked in the 18th century. The universities reputation peaked under the auspices of duke Charles Augustus, Goethe's patron (1787–1806), when Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Hegel, Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich von Schlegel and Friedrich Schiller were on its teaching staff.
Founded as a home for the new religious opinions of the sixteenth century, it has since been one of the most politically radical universities in Germany. Jena was noted among other German universities at the time for allowing students to duel and to have a passion for Freiheit, which were popularly regarded as the necessary characteristics of German student life.
At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, the German government militated against the university, which remained unpopular until recent times. This is believed to have been caused by the opening of new universities and the suspicions of the various German governments in regards to the democratic ideas coming out of Jena.
In 1905, Jena had 1100 students enrolled, and its teaching staff (including privatdozenten) numbered 112. Amongst its numerous auxiliaries are the library, with 200,000 volumes; the observatory; the meteorological institute; the botanical garden; the seminaries of theology, philology, and education; and the well-equipped clinical, anatomical, and physical institutes.
During the 20th century, the cooperation between Zeiss corperation, and the university brought new prosperity and attention to Jena, resulting in a dramatic increase in funding and enrollment.
Notable alumni
- Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (Doctorate astronomy 1951)
- Gottfried Benn
- Karl Marx (dissertation only, 1840)
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Robert Ley
Reference
- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
External link
- University of Jena (http://www.uni-jena.de/Homepage-lang-en.html)
- University of Jena, statistics (http://www.uni-jena.de/Daten_Fakten_Zahlen.html)
- Coimbra Group (http://www.coimbra-group.be) (a network of leading European universities)
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