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The 'University of Leipzig' (German ''Universität Leipzig''), located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony (former Kingdom of Saxony), Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe.
It was founded on December 2, 1409 by Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and his brother William II, Markgraf of Meißen, and originally comprised four faculties. Presently, it has grown to 14 faculties, and, with over 29,000 students, is Saxony's second-largest university. Since its inception the university has enjoyed almost 600 years of uninterrupted teaching and research. here are now more than 150 institutes and the university offers 190 study
programs leading to diplomas, Master's degrees and teaching
qualifications. Arguably, the Faculty of Medicine is the university's most renowned faculty.

Contents

History

Faculties

People associated with the University of Leipzig

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

See also

External links

History

The university was modelled on the University of Prague, from which the German-speaking faculty members withdrew to Leipzig after the Jan Hus crisis and the Decree of Kutná Hora. The ''Alma mater Lipsiensis'' opened in 1409, after it had been officially endorsed by Pope Alexander V in his ''Bull of Acknowledgment'' on (September 9 of that year). Its first rector was Johann von Münsterberg.
Between 1953 and 1991, the university was called ''Karl-Marx-University''.

Faculties

The original four facilities were the Faculty of Arts, Theology, Medicine, and Law. Today, the university comprises the following 14 faculties:

★ Faculty of Theology http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~theolweb/

★ Faculty of Law http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jura/start/

★ Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~gesch/

★ Faculty of Philology http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~philol/

★ Faculty of Education http://db.uni-leipzig.de/lageplan/index.php?kst=15

★ Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~faksoz/static/

★ Faculty of Economics and Management (including Civil Engineering) http://www.uni-leipzig.de/wifa/ns/index.php

★ Faculty of Sports Science http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sportfak/sport.htm

★ Faculty of Medicine (with a University Hospital) http://www.uni-leipzig.de/medizin/

★ Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.fmi.uni-leipzig.de/

★ [Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~biowiss/

★ Faculty of Physics and Earth Science http://www.uni-leipzig.de/physik/

★ Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy http://www.uni-leipzig.de/chemie/

★ Faculty of Veterinary Medicine http://www.vmf.uni-leipzig.de/

People associated with the University of Leipzig

Notable faculty

★ Ernst Bloch, philosopher

★ Karl Brugmann, comparative linguist

★ Karl Bücher, economist

★ Peter Debye, physicist

★ Gustav Fechner, psychologist

★ Hans Freyer, sociologist

★ Theodor Frings, Germanist

★ Paul Flechsig, neurologist

★ Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, theologian and poet

★ Rudolf Gottschall, critic, poet and dramatist

★ Johann Christoph Gottsched, philologist

★ Werner Heisenberg, physicist

★ Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist

★ Felix Klein, mathematician

★ Werner Krauss, Romanist

★ Karl Lamprecht, historian

★ Theodor Litt, educationalist

★ Walter Markov, historian

★ Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, historian

★ August Ferdinand Möbius, astronomer and mathematician

★ Petrus Mosellanus, Greek scholar

★ Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist

★ Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, botanist

★ Wilhelm Roscher, economist

★ Christian Thomasius, philosopher

★ Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist

★ Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician

★ Ernst Heinrich Weber, physician

★ Wilhelm Wundt, physicist, psychologist

★ Paul Zweifel, physician, physiologist

Notable alumni

★ Georgius Agricola, Saxon mining engineer and natural philosopher

★ Joseph L. Armstrong, American academic

★ Lothar Bisky, German politician

★ Marc Bloch, French historian

★ Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist and slavist

★ Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer

★ Hans Burgeff, German botanist

★ Oskar Dressel, German chemist

★ Émile Durkheim, French sociologist

★ Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Saxon librarian

★ Gustav Fechner, German psychologist

★ Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and sociologist

★ Kurt Albert Gerlach, German sociologist

★ Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet

★ Gotthard Günther, German-American philosopher

★ Edith Hamilton, American essayist and educator (together with her sister Alice, she was the first female student of the university)

★ Johann Adam Hiller, Saxon composer

★ Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician

★ Ulrich von Hutten, Hessian humanist and political leader

★ Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician

★ Wolfgang Iser, German literary theorist

★ Jan Jesenius, Slovak doctor

★ Uwe Johnson, German writer and translator

★ Ernst Jünger, German novelist and nationalist activist

★ Erich Kähler, German mathematician

★ Erich Kästner, German satirist and children's writer

★ Paul Kirchhoff, German anthropologist and ethnohistorian

★ Johannes Knolleisen, canon in Merseburg

★ Alexander Kohut, Hungarian-American rabbi and Orientalist

★ Victor Lange, American Germanist

★ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher

★ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and writer

★ Karl Liebknecht, German communist activist

★ Lin Yutang, Chinese novelist and inventor

★ Virgil Madgearu, Romanian economist and sociologist

★ Sándor Márai, Hungarian poet and novelist

★ Angela Merkel, German politician, first female Chancellor

★ Thomas Müntzer, Thuringian theologian and rebellion leader

★ Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist

★ Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

★ Novalis, German writer and philosopher

★ George Pardee, American doctor and politician

★ Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian Marxist sociologist and politician

★ James Phelan, Jr., American politician

★ Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist and historian

★ Alexander Radishchev, Russian political thinker

★ Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Romanian psychologist and philosopher

★ Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German botanist and physician

★ Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist

★ Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist

★ Kurt Schumacher, German politician

★ Robert Schumann, German composer

★ Bartholomäus Scultetus, Saxon statesman

★ Edward Teller, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

★ Galsan Tschinag, Tuvan-German author and poet

★ Dimitri Uznadze, Georgian psychologist

★ Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher

★ Richard Wagner, German composer

★ Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician

★ Gustav Zeuner, German physicist and engineer

★ Jeff Radebe, South African Politician

See also

★ Leipzig school (sociology)

★ Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL)

External links

★ University of Leipzig Website

★ ''Leipziger Universitätsverlag'' Publishing House