University of Hamburg
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| Universität Hamburg | |
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| Motto | der Forschung, der Lehre, der Bildung |
| Established | 1919 |
| Type | Public university |
| Chancellor | Katrin Vernau |
| President | Dieter Lenzen |
| Admin. staff | -- |
| Students | 40,008 |
| Location | Hamburg, Germany |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | EUA |
| Website | http://www.uni-hamburg.de |
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The University of Hamburg (German: Universität Hamburg) is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919[1] by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut (Colonial Institute) as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 40,000 students as of the end of 2011. In spite of its relatively short history, 6 Nobel Prize Winners and serials of scholars are affiliated to the University.
The annual recruitment of about 7,000 freshmen contributes to the current total of 38,000 students, of which every year 3,500 graduate and 900 receive doctoral degrees. Students can choose from a 120 different majors which are offered by six faculties.[citation needed]
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History [edit]
On April 1, 1919, the city of Hamburg announced the creation of the University of Hamburg.[2] However, even though it was established in 1919, the history of the university dates back to 1613.[2] Low participation levels forced the university to close in 1893.[2] It reorganized in 1895.[2] After the reorganization in 1895, local businessman Edmund Siemers donated the lecture building to the university. The building currently serves as the "Main Building" for the university.[2] There were several other educational institutions in Hamburg prior to the designation of a university.[2] The first faculties created by the university was Law and Political Science, Medicine, Philosophy and Natural Sciences.[2]
During the Weimar Republic era, the university quickly acquired international standing in a number of disciplines because of its outstanding scholars.[2] The National Socialist dictatorship destroyed this short and fruitful history, mostly by forcing the firing of around fifty scholars and scientists.[2]
The university grew from 1729 students in 1919 to 12,600 in 1960 to 19,200 in 1970.[2] Currently, 38,000 students which includes 4,626 foreign students, are registered.[2]
Since the beginning of the 80s the University of Hamburg has been directing its attention in a variety of ways toward its own history.[2]
Campus [edit]
The main campus is in the Rotherbaum quarter in the center of Hamburg. Other additional institutes of the University of Hamburg are located in other regions:
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Eppendorf)
- Botanical Garden and the Institute for General Botany (Flottbek)
- Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science near the harbor and Elbe (Altona)
- Hamburg Observatory (Bergedorf)
- Physics Institutes where the world-renowned German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) is located (Bahr Informatikum) since 1991 (Stellingen)
Faculties [edit]
As of 2006, the University of Hamburg supports 6 Collaborative Research Centres (German: Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB)), 6 Research Groups, 7 Research Training Groups (all funded by the DFG), 2 Max Planck Inter-national Research Schools, 13 Young Scientist Groups (Emmy-Noether-Programme, BMBF, etc.) as well as numerous large research projects funded by the BMBF, DFG, EU, Volkswagen Foundation and other grant-awarding institutions.[citation needed]
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Education, Psychology, and Human Movement
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Natural Sciences
- ZBH Center for Bioinformatics
With almost 850 professors engaged in teaching and research, the University of Hamburg is the largest in Hamburg. There are 1,800 academic staff members and 6,650 administrative staff members spread throughout 270 buildings in Hamburg.[citation needed]
List of institutes [edit]
- Archaeological Institute[3]
- Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum[4]
- Joint MBA with Fudan University[5]
- Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg[6]
- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietsky[7]
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- University of Hamburg is one of the two founding member of the China-EU School of Law in China University of Political Science in China, which contains 16 member institutions for providing mid-career training, master degree and joint doctoral research in China-European Law.[8]
People from University of Hamburg [edit]
Students/Graduates [edit]
- Gerd Bucerius - Politician, the namesake of the Bucerius Law School
- Azriel Carlebach (1909–56), Israeli journalist and editorial writer
- Shiing-Shen Chern - Winner of Wolf Prize in mathematics in 1984
- Jürgen Ehlers - Winner of Max Planck Medal in 2002
- Rainer Froese – Developer of FishBase
- Harald zur Hausen - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
- Ingo Heidbrink - Maritime Historian. Secretary General of the International Commission for Maritime History
- Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem - Legal scholar and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
- J. Hans D. Jensen - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963[9]
- Hein Kötz - Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international private law (MPI-PRIV), the Bucerius Law School and Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
- Hans Adolf Krebs - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953[10]
- Jens Marklof – Mathematician and physicist. Winner of the Whitehead Prize.
- Paul Nevermann - First Mayor of Hamburg (1961–1965)
- Jože Pučnik - Known as one of the "Fathers of Slovenian independence from Yugoslavia"
- Peter Schlechtriem – Law scholar
- Wolfgang Schäuble - Politician
- Helmut Schmidt - Graduate. Economist, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982
- Richard Sorge – famous spy
- Leo Strauss – political philosopher well known for US Esotericism.
Faculties [edit]
- Rudolf Fleischmann – An experimental nuclear physicist
- Willibald Jentschke – An experimental nuclear physicist
- Klaus Koch – Anxpert in the growth of Biblical Studies
- Arnold Kohlschütter – A well-known astronomer and astrophysicist
- Wolfgang Paul – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, founder of the DESY.[11]
- Wolfgang Pauli – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945[9]
- Johann Radon – A mathematician
- Otto Stern – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943[9]
- William Stern – The inventor of the concept of the intelligence quotient (IQ)
- Alfred Wegener - founder of the continental drift theory
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker – An nuclear physicist known as the longest-living member of the research team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War
See also [edit]
- Education in Hamburg
- Hamburg University of Technology
- List of forestry universities and colleges
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
- List of universities in Germany
References [edit]
- ^ "University of Hamburg - At a Glance". University of Hamburg. December 9, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Hamburg - Gateway to the World of Knowledge". University of Hamburg. April 25, 2007. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
- ^ "Universität Hamburg – Archäologisches Institut". Uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/schaumuseum/sammlung_e.html
- ^ "MIBE China Focus". Mibe-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ "RRZ Universität Hamburg: Aktuelles". Rrz.uni-hamburg.de. 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ "Bibliothekssystem Universität Hamburg". Sub.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ http://www.cesl.edu.cn/eng/index.asp
- ^ a b c "All Nobel Prizes in Physics". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
- ^ "All Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
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