University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
| Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
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| Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
 Logo of the Universität of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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| Motto in English | Advance through Networks |
| Established | 1742 (first) 1743 (moved) |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | €124 million(External funding 2010)[1] |
| Chancellor | Thomas AH Schöck |
| President | Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Karl-Dieter Grüske |
| Vice-president | Prof. Dr. Christoph Korbmacher Prof. Johanna Haberer Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger |
| Academic staff | 640 (professorship positions) |
| Admin. staff | 12,000 employees (4,800 in the Institute area and the administrative) |
| Students | 33,487 (WS 2011/12)[2] |
| Doctoral students | 714(2010)[3] |
| Location | Erlangen and Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | FAU |
| Affiliations | Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art |
| Website | www.uni-erlangen.org(English) www.uni-erlangen.de(German) |
The Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (German: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg or FAU) is a university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It is the second largest state university in Bavaria, having five Schools, 312 chairs (WS 2011/12)[4], and 12,000 employees. There are 33,487 students enrolled (winter semester 2010/2011) at the university, of which about 2/3 are in Erlangen and 1/3 in Nuremberg. There are about 2,700 foreign students.
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[edit] History
The university was founded in 1742 in Bayreuth by Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and moved to Erlangen in 1743. Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (one of the two namesakes of the institution) provided significant support to the early university.
From the beginning, the university was a Protestant institution, but it slowly secularized. During the Nazi era, the university was one of the first that had a majority of Nazi supporters in the student council. In 1961 the business college in Nuremberg was merged with the university in Erlangen, which led to the present state of a university divided between two towns. A technical faculty was inaugurated in 1966 and the pedagogical college in Nuremberg became part of the university in 1972.
[edit] Faculties
In February 2007 the senate of the university decided upon a restructuring into five faculties [2]. Since October 2007 the FAU consists of [5]:
- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Sciences
- Faculty of Engineering
The following faculties were part of the university: (sorted in the order in which they were founded)
- Theological faculty
- Law faculty
- Medical faculty
- Philosophical faculty I (philosophy, history, and social sciences)
- Philosophical Faculty II (languages and literature)
- Science faculty I (mathematics and physics)
- Science faculty II (biology, chemistry, and pharmaceutics)
- Science faculty III (geography, geology / mineralogy /paleontology)
- Business- and social sciences faculty (1961) in Nuremberg
- Technical Faculty (1966)
- Pedagogical faculty (1972) in Nuremberg
[edit] Services and Facilities Associated with the FAU[6]
[edit] Scientific institutions affiliated with the University
(called An institutes under Article 103, paragraph 2 BayHSchG)
- Research Institute for Cooperative Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Institute for the professions
- WiSo Leadership Academy Nuremberg (EFC) - Charitable mbH at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Institute for Preventive Medicine of the kidney, high-pressure and heart disease (IPM) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Institute for Empirical Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Forum V - Northern Bavarian Institute of Insurance Science and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
[edit] Other facilities associated with the University
- Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Light
- IIS - Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
- IISB - Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology
- Bavarian Laser Center (BLZ)
- Innovation Center for Telecommunication GmbH
- Bavarian State Institute of Apiculture
- Bavarian Health and Food Safety
- Center for Distance Learning and Continuing Education
- Institute of Foreign Languages and Foreign Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (BayLAT)
- Collegium Alexandrinum
- Graduate School of FAU
- Regional Computing Centre Erlangen
- Sports Centre
- Language Centre
- Student Service
- University Library
- University Clinic
- Center for teachers and teacher education
[edit] Ranking
World ranking of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg published by Academic Ranking of World Universities:
| Ranking | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 |
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| Academic Ranking of World Universities | 201-300 | 201-300 | 201-302 | 201-302 | 203-304 | 201-300 | 203-300 | 202-301 | 201-300 |
[edit] Points of interest
- Botanischer Garten Erlangen, the university's botanical garden
[edit] Famous students and graduates
- Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810), naturalist, studied mammals.
- Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), founder of homeopathy
- Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), physicist, Ohm's law, named after him.
- Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist, "father of the fertilizer industry".
- Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher, associated with the Young Hegelians, an atheist.
- Eduard Buchner (1860-1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician, Noether's theorem, named after her.
- Hans Geiger (1882-1945), physicist, Geiger counter
- Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), Chancellor of Germany 1963-1966
- Karlheinz Brandenburg (1954–), audio engineer, developer of the MP3 audio codec.
- Alma Adamkienė (1927-), First Lady of Lithuania 1998-2009
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official website(English)
- Official website (German)
- Complete Lecture Guide
- The university library
- Alumni Network and Faculty Association of the WiSo Nuremberg
- Collegium Alexandrinum Public lecture courses
[edit] References
- ^ "Uni Erlangen Funding". uni-erlangen.de. http://www.uni-erlangen.de/universitaet/statistik/drittmittel.shtml. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "Uni Erlangen Students". uni-erlangen.de. http://www.uni-erlangen.de/universitaet/statistik/studierende/. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "Uni Erlangen Statistics". uni-erlangen.de. http://www.uni-erlangen.org/university/stats.shtml. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ uni-erlangen.de: [1].
- ^ "Uni Erlangen Faculties". uni-erlangen.de. http://www.uni-erlangen.org/university/organisation/faculties/. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "Associated facilities with FAU". uni-erlangen.de. http://www.uni-erlangen.de/einrichtungen/verbundene-einrichtungen/. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
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