University of Hamburg
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Universität Hamburg | |
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| Type | Public university |
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| Established | 1919 |
| Chancellor | Katrin Vernau |
| President | Dieter Lenzen |
| Students | 38,000 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | EUA |
| Website | http://www.uni-hamburg.de |
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| Data as of 2006[update] | |
The University of Hamburg (German: Universität Hamburg) is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 1 April 1919 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 38,000 students as of the start of 2006. 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]
History
In 1919 at the University of Hamburg there were 1,729 students. The number increased to about 6000 in the 50s, to 12,600 in the 60s and to 19,200 in the 70s. Currently the University of Hamburg counts people 38,000 as students with 2,200 of those international students. From the late 50s to the middle of the 60s the Von-Melle-Park campus in the heart of the city close to the Aussenalster lake was renewed. New, modern buildings were built in 1974 and 1975. The "Geomatikum" for the Faculties of Mathematics and Earth Sciences which is located in Eimsbüttel was also built.[citation needed]
Campus
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
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 [1]
- Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences [2] (German only)
- Faculty of Medicine [3]
- Faculty of Education, Psychology, and Human Movement [4]
- Faculty of Humanities [5]
- Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Natural Sciences [6]
- ZBH Center for Bioinformatics [7]
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
- Archaeological Institute [8]
- Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum website
- Joint MBA with Fudan University [9]
- Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg [10]
- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietsky [11]
- 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. [12]
People from University of Hamburg
- Students/Graduates
- Hans Adolf Krebs - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953
- J. Hans D. Jensen - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963
- Harald zur Hausen - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
- Shiing-Shen Chern - Winner of Wolf Prize in mathematics in 1984
- Jürgen Ehlers - Winner of Max Planck Medal in 2002
- Helmut Schmidt - Graduate. Economist, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982
- Gerd Bucerius - Politician, the namesake of the Bucerius Law School
- 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.
- Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem - Legal scholar and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
- 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
- Leo Strauss - A political philosopher well-known for US Esotericism.
- Richard Sorge - A famous spy
- Faculties
- Otto Stern - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943
- Wolfgang Pauli - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945
- Wolfgang Paul - Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, founder of the DESY[1] .
- Rudolf Fleischmann - An experimental nuclear physicist
- Willibald Jentschke - An experimental nuclear physicist
- 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
- William Stern (psychologist) - The inventor of the concept of the intelligence quotient(IQ)
- Klaus Koch - Anxpert in the growth of Biblical Studies
- Arnold Kohlschütter - A well-known astronomer and astrophysicist
- Johann Radon - A mathematician
See also
- Education in Hamburg
- List of universities in Germany
- Hamburg University of Technology
- List of forestry universities and colleges
References
External links
- Website
- University History Template:De icon
- Reviews of University of Hamburg by international students on iAgora.
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