The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a
public research university located in
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...
,
Thuringia,
Germany.
The university was established in 1558 and is counted among
the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate
Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was awarded 189th place in the world. It was renamed after the poet
Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With
Karl Leonhard Reinhold,
Johann Gottlieb Fichte,
G. W. F. Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
,
F. W. J. Schelling and
Friedrich Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of
German idealism and
early Romanticism.
, the university has around 19,000 students enrolled and 375 professors. Its current president,
Walter Rosenthal, has held the role since 2014.
History
Early history
Elector
John Frederick of Saxony
John Frederick I (30 June 1503 in Torgau – 3 March 1554 in Weimar), called the Magnanimous, was the Elector of Saxony (1532–1547) and head of the Schmalkaldic League.
Early years
John Frederick was the eldest son of Elector John by his firs ...
first thought of a plan to establish a university at
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...
upon Saale in 1547 while he was being held captive by emperor
Charles V Charles V may refer to:
* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558)
* Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain
* Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise
* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690)
* Infan ...
. The plan was put into motion by his three sons and, after having obtained a charter from the Emperor
Ferdinand I, the university was established on 2 February 1558. The university, jointly maintained by the
Saxon Duchies who derived from partitioning of John Frederick's duchy, was thus named Ducal Pan-Saxon University (german: Herzoglich Sächsische Gesamtuniversität) or Salana (after the
river Saale
The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Franconian Saale, ...
).
Prior to the 20th century, university enrollment peaked in the 18th century. The university's reputation peaked under the auspices of Duke
Charles Augustus,
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tre ...
's patron (1787–1806), when
Gottlieb Fichte,
G. W. F. Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
,
Friedrich Schelling,
Friedrich von Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (; ; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures ...
and
Friedrich Schiller were on its teaching staff.
Founded as a home for the new religious opinions of the sixteenth century, it has since been one of the most politically radical universities in Germany. Jena was noted among other German universities at the time for allowing students to
duel and to have a passion for ''Freiheit'', which were popularly regarded as the necessary characteristics of German student life. The University of Jena has preserved a historical detention room or
Karzer with famous caricatures by Swiss painter
Martin Disteli.
In the latter 19th century, the department of
zoology taught
evolutionary theory, with
Carl Gegenbaur
Karl Gegenbaur (21 August 1826 – 14 June 1903)"Karl Gegenbaur – Encyclopædia Britannica" (biography), ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2006, Britannica.coBritannica-KarlG was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of c ...
,
Ernst Haeckel and others publishing detailed theories at the time of
Darwin's ''"
Origin of Species"'' (1858). The later fame of
Ernst Haeckel eclipsed Darwin in some
European countries, as the term "Haeckelism" was more common than
Darwinism.
In 1905, Jena had 1,100 students enrolled and its teaching staff (including ''
Privatdozenten'') numbered 112. Amongst its numerous auxiliaries then were the library, with 200,000 volumes; the observatory; the meteorological institute; the botanical garden; the seminaries of theology, philology, and education; and the well-equipped clinical, anatomical, and physical institutes.
After the end of the Saxon duchies in 1918, and their merger with further principalities into the
Free State of Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and la ...
in 1920, the university was renamed as the Thuringian State University (Thüringische Landesuniversität) in 1921. In 1934 the university was renamed again, receiving its present name of Friedrich Schiller University. During the 20th century, the cooperation between
Zeiss Zeiss or Zeiß may refer to:
People
*Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), German optician and entrepreneur
*Emil Zeiß (1833–1910), German Protestant minister and painter
Companies
*Carl Zeiss AG, German manufacturer of optics, industrial measurem ...
corporation and the university brought new prosperity and attention to Jena, resulting in a dramatic increase in funding and enrollment.
Nazi period
During the Third Reich, staunch
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...
moved into leading positions at the university. The racial researcher and
SS-Hauptscharführer Karl Astel was appointed professor in 1933, bypassing traditional qualifications and process; he later became rector of the university in 1939. Also in 1933, many professors had to leave the university as a consequence of the
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Hitler Service (german: Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums, shortened to ''Berufsbeamtengesetz''), also known as Civil Service Law, Civil Service Restoration Act, and Law to Re-es ...
. Student fraternities – in particular the
Burschenschaften
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Burschenschaften were ...
– were dissolved and incorporated into the Nazi student federation. The Nazi student federation enjoyed before the transfer of power and won great support among the student body elections in January 1933, achieving 49.3% of the vote, which represents the second best result. Between the Jena connections and the NS students wide-ranging human and ideological connections were recorded.
When the Allied
air raids to Jena in February and March struck in 1945, the University Library, the university main building and several clinics in the Bachstraße received total or significant physical damage. Completely destroyed were the Botanical Garden, the psychological and the physiological institute and three chemical Institutes. An important event for the National Socialist period was the investigation of the pediatrician
Yusuf Ibrahim. A Senate Commission noted the participation of the physician to the "euthanasia" murders of physically or mentally disabled children.
Present
In the 20th century the university was promoted through cooperation with
Carl Zeiss (company)
Carl Zeiss AG (), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the fo ...
and thereby enabling it to increase the student population as a mass university. In 1905 the university had 1,100 students and 112 university teachers, so this figure has since been almost twenty-fold. The Friedrich-Schiller University is the only comprehensive university in Thuringia.
Since 1995, there is a university association with the
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the
University of Leipzig. The aim is firstly to give the students the opportunity to visit with relatively few problems at the partner universities and events in order to broaden the range of subjects and topics. Currently e. g. has joined a cooperation in teaching in the field of bioinformatics. In addition, the cooperation provides the university management the opportunity to share experiences with their regular meetings and initiate common projects. So z. B. went from the successful bid to the
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) from the university network. The co-operation continues at other levels: for example in a joint mentoring program for female postdocs or in the central German archives network. And last but not least, there are common sports activities.
Since October 2014, the pharmacologist
Walter Rosenthal is the president of the university;
Chancellor
Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
is since 2007 the mathematician Klaus Bartholmé.
Klaus Bartholmé (FSU)
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Organization
The university is organized in 10 schools:
* theology
* jurisprudence
* economics and business administration
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* humanities
* social and behavioural sciences
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* mathematics and computer science
* physics and astronomy
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* chemical and earth sciences
* biology
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and pharmacy
* medicine
Research
Research at Friedrich Schiller University traditionally focusses on both humanities and sciences. In addition to the faculties the following "Collaborative Research Centers" (German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
"Sonderforschungsbereich", short: "SFB") operate at the university:
* CRC 1076 AquaDiva : Understanding the Links Between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere
* CRC/TR 124 FungiNet: Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction
* CRC 1127 ChemBioSys: Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems
* CRC/TR 166 ReceptorLight: High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function
* CRC 1278 Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategiesde
* CRC / TR 234 CataLIGHT: Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials – Synthesis and Mechanistic Studiesde
* CRC 1375 NOA: Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic Scales
Participations in DFG-Collaborative Research Centres:
* CRC 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa
* CRC/TRR 212 A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction
In 2006 the research center, Jena Center – History of the 20th century, was founded. In 2007 the graduate school "Jena School for Microbial Communication" (JSMC) was established within the German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen cooperation ...
. In 2008 the Center for Molecular Biomedicine (CMB) and the interdisciplinary research center Laboratory of the Enlightenment were developed as research institutions. 2014 the "Center of Advanced Research" (ZAF) was established.
Jena University is one of the founder of The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, that was founded in 2013. It is a research centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Friedrich Schiller University is the only German university with chairs for either gravitational theory or Caucasus Studies.
Notable faculty and alumni
* Manuk Abeghian
Manuk Abeghian ( hy, Մանուկ Աբեղյան, , alternatively Manouk Abeghian, or Manuk Abeghyan, March 15, 1865 – September 26, 1944) was a scholar of Armenian literature and folklore. He is best remembered as the main designer of the ref ...
Armenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...
philologist and linguist
* Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (11 August 1912 – 9 March 1954) was a German astronomer. She made key observations of variable stars.
Eva Ahner-Rohlfs was born in Coburg (Duchy Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 193 ...
( doctorate in astronomy
Astronomy () is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and evolution. Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galax ...
1951)
* Wilibald Artus (1811–1880), Professor of Philosophy
* Johann Bachstrom
Jan Fryderyk or Johann Friedrich Bachstrom (24 December 1688, near Rawitsch, now Rawicz, Poland - June 1742, Nieswiez, now Nyasvizh, Belarus) was a writer, scientist and Lutheran theologian who spent the last decade of his life in Leiden. His ...
, writer, scientist, physician and Lutheran theologian
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* Ernst Gottfried Baldinger, German physician
* Hans Berger
* Otto Binswanger
Otto Ludwig Binswanger (; ; 14 October 1852 in Scherzingen, Münsterlingen – 15 July 1929 in Kreuzlingen) was a Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist who came from a famous family of physicians; his father was founder of the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium, ...
* Albrecht von Blumenthal
Albrecht von Blumenthal (10 August 1889 – 28 March 1945) was a Prussian landowner, Classicist and Nazi supporter.
Early life
Albrecht von Blumenthal was born in Staffelde in Vorpommern, the son of Rittmeister Vally von Blumenthal and Corn ...
taught Classical Philology as Privatdozent 1922-8
*Rudolf Brandt
Rudolf Hermann Brandt (2 June 1909 – 2 June 1948) was a German SS officer from 1933–45 and a civil servant. A lawyer by profession, Brandt was the Personal Administrative Officer to ''Reichsführer-SS'' (''Persönlicher Referent vom Reichsf ...
(1909–1948), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
*Werner Braune
Karl Rudolf Werner Braune (11 April 1909 − 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a Holocaust perpetrator. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, Braune was the commander of ''Einsatzkommando'' 11b, ...
(1909–1951), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
* Alfred Brehm
Alfred Edmund Brehm (; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist, writer, director of zoological gardens and the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm, a famous pastor and ornithologist.
Through the book title '' Brehms Tierleb ...
* Clemens Brentano
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* Rudolf Carnap
* Heinrich Cotta
Johann Heinrich Cotta, also Heinrich von Cotta, (30 October 1763 – 25 October 1844) was a German silviculturist who was a native of Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia. He was founder of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry, in Tharandt, ...
, pioneer of scientific forestry
* Georg Friedrich Creuzer
* Claus Dierksmeier, German philosopher
* Carl H. Dorner
* Ernst Christoph Dressler
Ernst Christoph Dressler (23 September 1734 – 6 April 1779) was a German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist. A self-taught singer and violinist, he became a musician at several courts before he moved to the Court Opera in Vi ...
(1734–1779), German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist
* Rudolf Christoph Eucken
* Johann Gottlieb Fichte
* Gottlob Frege
* Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945), a German Nazi jurist, judge, and politician, served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942 and as President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945.
As ...
* Michael Fritsch
* Johann Matthias Gesner
Johann Matthias Gesner (9 April 1691 – 3 August 1761) was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.
Life
He was born at Roth an der Rednitz near Ansbach. His father, Johann Samuel Gesner, a pastor in Auhausen, died in 1704, leaving the ...
* Nelson Glueck
* Peter Griess
Johann Peter Griess (6 September 1829 – 30 August 1888) was an industrial chemist and an early pioneer of organic chemistry. Griess was influential in the formation of modern dyes, first formulating the diazotization reaction of arylamines.
Li ...
* Friedrich von Hagedorn
Friedrich von Hagedorn (23 April 1708 – 28 October 1754), German poet, was born at Hamburg, where his father, a man of scientific and literary taste, was Danish ambassador. His younger brother, Christian Ludwig, was a well known art historian a ...
* Arvid Harnack
Arvid Harnack (; 24 May 1901 in Darmstadt – 22 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German jurist, Marxist economist, Communist, and German resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Harnack came from an intellectual family and was originally a humanist. H ...
* Karl Hase
Karl August von Hase (25 August 1800 – 3 January 1890) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian.
Background
He was born at Steinbach (near Penig) in Saxony. He studied at Leipzig and Erlangen, and in 1829 was called to Je ...
* Gerhart Hauptmann Nobel Prize–winning writer
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
* Cuno Hoffmeister
Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory.
Born in Sonneberg in 1892 to Carl and Marie Hoffmeister, Cu ...
* Thede Kahl
* George Kessler
* Georg Klaus
* Christian Knaut Christian Knaut (August 16, 1656 – April 11, 1716) was a German physician, botanist and librarian born in Halle an der Saale. His older brother, Christoph Knaut (1638–1694) was also a physician and botanist.
He studied medicine at the Univ ...
, 17th Century botanist after whom ''Knautia arvensis
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Description
It is a perennial plant that grows between . It prefers grassy places and dry ...
'' was named by Linnaeus
* Karl Korsch (graduated from the University of Jena's law school summa cum laude superato, 1911)
* Jan Kollár, Panslavist and poet
* Li Linsi
Li Linsi (; 1896 – 1970); birth name Li Jiaxiang (), was a modern Chinese educator, diplomat and scholar, who has been recognized as one of the key figures in modern Chinese cultural and diplomatic history. Hailed as China's Mahatma Gandhi, ...
, Chinese educator and diplomat
* István Kováts
* Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (; 6 May 1781 – 27 September 1832) was a German philosopher whose doctrines became known as Krausism. Krausism, when considered in its totality as a complete, stand-alone philosophical system, had only a small ...
* Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize–winning physicist
* August Leskien
August Leskien (; 8 July 1840 – 20 September 1916) was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages.
Biography
Leskien was born in Kiel. He studied philology at t ...
* Robert Ley
* Francis Lieber, emigrant to USA, author of "Lieber Code"
* Lucas Maius
Lucas Maius (also Mai, May, Majus) (October 14, 1522 in Römhild – 4 or 5 March 1598 in Kassel) was a German Protestant pastor who converted from Lutheranism to Calvinism, and playwright during the Protestant Reformation.
Life
Lucas Maius was bo ...
* Karl Marx (doctorate ''in absentia'', 1841)
* Ernest Nash
Ernest Nash (September 14, 1898, in Potsdam, Germany – May 18, 1974 in Rome, Italy) was a student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography. Nash was born as Ernst Nathan in Potsdam, Germany, but later changed his name ...
* Novalis
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (), was a German polymath who was a writer, philosopher, poet, aristocrat and mystic. He is regarded as an idiosyncratic and influential figure of ...
* Ernst Ottwalt
* Axel Oxenstierna
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre (; 1583–1654), Count of Södermöre, was a Swedish statesman. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death. He was a c ...
* Henri Pittier
* Samuel von Pufendorf
* Gerhard von Rad
Gerhard von Rad (21 October 1901 – 31 October 1971) was a German academic, Old Testament scholar, Lutheran theologian, exegete, and professor at the University of Heidelberg.
Early life, education, career
Gerhard von Rad was born in Nur ...
* Werner Rolfinck
*Erich Roth
Erich Roth (1910 – executed in 1947 in Yugoslavia) was a functionary in the Gestapo (secret police) of Nazi Germany and war criminal during World War II.
Roth studied law at the University of Jena and University of Göttingen and worked as an ...
(1910–1947), Nazi Gestapo member executed for war crimes
* Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy
Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, sometimes Solomon Mayer Schiller-Szinessy (23 December 1820, Budapest, Hungary - 11 March 1890, Cambridge) was a Hungarian rabbi and academic. He became the first Jewish Reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature a ...
, doctorate ( philosophy) ( mathematics)
* Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
* Friedrich Schiller
* August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel (; 8 September 176712 May 1845), usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His trans ...
* August Schleicher
August Schleicher (; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. His great work was ''A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages'' in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European languag ...
, German Linguist, Stammbaumtheorie (family-tree theory)
* Arthur Schopenhauer
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(philosophy doctorate ''in absentia'', 1813)
* Otto Schott, inventor of borosilicate glass
* Hugo Schuchardt, linguist
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* David Spence (rubber chemistry), early pioneer in rubber chemistry
* Johann Gustav Stickel
Johann Gustav Stickel (7 July 1805 – 21 January 1896) was a German theologian, orientalist and numismatist at Jena University.
Biography
Stickel was born in Eisenach in 1805. He went to school in Buttelstedt and in Weimar. In his youth ...
, orientalist
* Michael Stifel
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, monk and mathematician
* Cajetan Tschink
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, writer and philosopher
* Kurt Tucholsky
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Tucholsky was o ...
, journalist and satirist
* Erhard Weigel
Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 – 20 March 1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
Biography
Weigel earned his M.A. (1650) and his habilitation (1652) from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was pro ...
, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
* Christa Wolf
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Barbara Gard ...
, novelist and essayisy
* Christian Wolff, philosopher
* Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss (; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practica ...
, optician
Museums and collections at the University
Among the collections which are open to the public are the Jena Phyletisches Museum
The Phyletic Museum in 2012
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, an institution which is unique in Europe for illustrating the history of evolution, the Ernst-Haeckel-Memorialmuseum, the Mineralogical Collection which traces its roots back to Goethe and the second oldest Botanical Garden of Middle Europe
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. The (''Schillers Gartenhaus'') and the Goethe Memorial at the Botanical Garden are reminders of the two towering geniuses of Jena. Both buildings are also open to the public.
Oriental Collections / Papyrus Collection
* The Alphons-Stübel-Collection of Early Photographs from the Orient (1857–1890)
* Hilprecht Collection
* Orientalisches Münzkabinett (OMJ)
* Papyrus Collection
Archaeological Collections
* Collection of Ancient Art
* Collection of Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculpture
* The Photo- and Slide Collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology
* The Collection of Prehistory and Early History
* The Bilzingsleben collection
* Departement of Art History and Custodia
Natural Sciences and Natural History
* The Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
* Zygomycetes (Mould Fungi)
* Didactics of Biology
* Herbarium Haussknecht (JE)
* Botanical garden
* Phyletic Museum
Mineralogy & Geology
* Mineralogical Collection
* Teaching Collection of Models for Mineralogy
History of Sciences
* Collection of scientific and technical devices for physics
* Astronomical collection
Medicine
* The Meyer Steineg Collection of Medical History in Jena
* Anatomical Collection
* Medical History
* Goethe Memorial
See also
* List of early modern universities in Europe
Notes
References
*
Literature
* Mayhew, Henry (1864): German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day: With an Account of Village Life – Town Life – Fashionable Life – Domestic Life – Married Life – School and University Life, &c., of Germany at the Present Time: Illustrated with Songs and Pictures of the Student Customs at the University of Jena. In Two Volumes. London ol. II, Section VII, Chapter VI-XI: Student Life at Jena
External links
University of Jena
*Norbert Nail: Der schottische Dichter Charles Hamilton Sorley
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Life and work
Born in Powis ...
als Student im Sommer 1914 an Saale, Lahn und Mose
(in German)
*Norbert Nail: John Baillie (theologian), John Baillie – Schotte, Pastor, Student 1909/11 in Jena und Marburg. In: Studenten-Kurier 3/2017, pp. 16–18
(in German)
*Norbert Nail: Ein tödliches Pistolenduell 1848 auf der Trießnitz in (Jena-)Winzerla. In: Studenten-Kurier 1-2/2019, pp. 12–1
(in German – a deadly student duel at Jena)
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Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...
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1558 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
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