University of Leipzig
The
University of Leipzig (
German Universität Leipzig), located in
Leipzig in the Free State and former Kingdom of
Saxony, is one of the oldest universities in
Europe. It was founded in
1409 by
Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and his brother
William II, Markgraf of Meißen, and was originally comprised of four faculties.Today it has grown to 14 faculties, and with over 29,000 students, is
Saxony's second-largestuniversity. Since its inception the university has enjoyed almost 600 years ofuninterrupted teaching and research. There are now more than 150 institutes and the university offers 190 studyprograms leading to a diplomas, Master's degrees and teachingqualifications. Arguably, the Faculty of Medicine is the university's most renowned faculty.
The 'Alma mater Lipsiensis' opened on
2 December 1409 after it hadbeen officially endorsed by
Pope Alexander V in his
Bull of Acknowledgment on
9 September 1409. Its first rector was
Johann von Münsterberg. Between
1953 and
1991, the university was called
Karl-Marx-University.
The original four facilities were the Faculty of Arts, Theology, Medicine,and Law. Today, the university comprises the following 14 faculties:
* Faculty of Theology
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies
* Faculty of Philology
* Faculty of Education
* Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
* Faculty of Economics and Management (incl. Civil Engineering)
* Faculty of Sports Science
* Faculty of Medicine (and a University Hospital)
* Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
* Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology
* Faculty of Physics and Earth Science
* Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy
* Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Notable faculty
* astronomer and mathematician
August Ferdinand Möbius* botanist
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus* chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald* economist
Karl Bücher* economist
Wilhelm Roscher* educationalist
Theodor Litt* germanist
Theodor Frings* Greek scholar
Petrus Mosellanus* historian
Karl Lamprecht* historian
Walter Markov* man of letters
Rudolf von Gottschall* historian
Wilhelm Maurenbrecher* mathematician
Felix Klein* mathematician
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden* neurologist
Paul Flechsig* philologist
Johann Christoph Gottsched* philosopher
Ernst Bloch* philosopher
Christian Thomasius* physicist
Werner Heisenberg* physicist
Shinichirō Tomonaga* physicist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz* physicist
Peter Debye* psychologist
Wilhelm Wundt* romanist
Werner Krauss* theologian and poet
Christian Fürchtegott GellertNotable alumni
*
Georgius Agricola, ( studied literature and medicine ) mining engineer and natural philosopher
*
Lothar Bisky *
Marc Bloch, French historian
*
Tycho Brahe * Hans Burgeff
* Oskar Dressel
*
Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
*
Friedrich Adolf Ebert*
Arnold Gehlen,
*
Kurt Albert Gerlach, Sociologist
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet
* Alexander Radischtschew
*
Gotthard Günther*
Edith Hamilton, writer , together with her sister Alice she was the first female student of the university
*
Johann Adam Hiller*
Ulrich von Hutten writer and political leader
*
Nicolae Iorga Romanian historian and politician
* Jan Jessenius(
Jan Jesenius ) 1585-86, doctor , personal physician of emperor Rudolf II.
*
Uwe Johnson*
Ernst Jünger *
Erich Kästner, author
*
Alexander Kohut, rabbi and Orientalist
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Victor Lange, academic
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz *
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philosopher and writer
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Karl Liebknecht *
Sándor Márai *
Angela Merkel, first female German Chancellor ( 2005 - )
*
Thomas Müntzer, political leader and theologian
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Carl Friedrich Naumann *
Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
*
Novalis*
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian Marxist sociologist and politician
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Samuel Pufendorf, Historian
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Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, botanist and physician
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Ferdinand de Saussure*
Helmut Schelsky*
Kurt Schumacher *
Robert Schumann, composer
* Bartholomäus Scultetus
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Edward Teller * Dimitri Usnadse, psychologist
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Richard Wagner, composer
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher
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Lin Yutang, writer
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Gustav Zeuner, physicist and engineer
Ernst Weber (Physiology)Gustav Theodor Fechner a.k.a. Dr. Mises (Psychophysics Physiology Physics)
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Leipzig school (sociology)*
Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL)*
University of Leipzig Website 
