Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
in
Saxony
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,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, is one of the world's oldest
universities
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and the
second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by
Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and his brother
William II, Margrave of Meissen
Wilhelm II, the Rich (23 April 1371 – 13 March 1425) was the second son of Margrave Frederick ''the Strict'' of Meissen and Catherine of Henneberg.
Under the Division of Chemnitz of 1382, he received the Osterland and Landsberg jointly ...
, and originally comprised the four scholastic faculties. Since its inception, the university has engaged in teaching and research for over 600 years without interruption.
Famous alumni include
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathem ...
,
Johann Wolfgang von 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 trea ...
,
Leopold von Ranke
Leopold von Ranke (; 21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of ...
,
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...
,
Robert Schumann,
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
,
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe ( ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; generally called Tycho (14 December 154624 October 1601) was a Danish astronomer, known for his comprehensive astronomical observations, generally considered to be the most accurate of his time. He was k ...
,
Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empir ...
,
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Oppo ...
and ten
Nobel laureates
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associated with the university.
History
Founding and development until 1900
The university was modelled on the
University of Prague, from which the German-speaking faculty members withdrew to Leipzig after the
Jan Hus
Jan Hus (; ; 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as ''Iohannes Hus'' or ''Johannes Huss'', was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the insp ...
crisis and the
Decree of Kutná Hora
The Decree of Kutná Hora ( cs, Dekret Kutnohorský) or Decree of Kuttenberg (german: Kuttenberger Dekret) was issued on 18 January 1409 in Kutná Hora (''Kuttenberg''), Bohemia, by King Wenceslaus IV to give members of the Bohemian nation a decis ...
. The ''Alma mater Lipsiensis'' opened in 1409, after it had been officially
chartered by
Pope Alexander V
Peter of Candia, also known as Peter Phillarges (c. 1339 – May 3, 1410), named as Alexander V ( la, Alexander PP.
V; it, Alessandro V), was an antipope elected by the Council of Pisa during the Western Schism (1378–1417). He reigned briefly ...
in his ''
Bull of Acknowledgment'' on (9 September of that year). Its first rector was
Johannes Otto von Münsterberg. From its foundation, the
Paulinerkirche served as the university church. After the
Reformation
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, the church and the monastery buildings were donated to the university in 1544. In order to secure independent and sustainable funding, the university was endowed with the lordship over nine villages east of
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
(university villages). It kept this status for nearly 400 years until land reforms were carried out in the 19th century.
Like many European universities, the University of Leipzig was structured into colleges (''collegia'') responsible for organising accommodation and collegiate lecturing. Among the colleges of Leipzig were the Small College, the Large College, the
Red College (''Rotes Kolleg'', also known as the New College), the college of our Lady (''Frauenkolleg'') and the Pauliner-College (''Pauliner Kolleg''). There were also private residential halls (''bursen'', see English 'bursaries'). The colleges had jurisdiction over their members. The college structure was abandoned later and today only the names survive.
During the first centuries, the university grew slowly and was a rather regional institution. This changed, however, during the 19th century when the university became a world-class institution of higher education and research. At the end of the 19th century, important scholars such as
Bernhard Windscheid
Bernhard Windscheid (26 June 1817 – 26 October 1892) was a German jurist and a member of the pandectistic school of law thought.
He became famous with his essay on the concept of a legal action, which sparkled a debate with that is said to ...
(one of the fathers of the German Civil Code) and
Wilhelm Ostwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (; 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist and German philosophy, philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst, ...
(viewed as a founder of modern
physical chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mecha ...
) taught at Leipzig.
![Rotes Kolleg Leipzig](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Rotes_Kolleg_Leipzig.jpg)
Leipzig University was one of the first German universities to allow women to register as "guest students".
At its general assembly in 1873, the thanked the University of Leipzig and Prague for allowing women to attend as guest students. This was the year that the first woman in Germany obtained her JD,
Johanna von Evreinov.
During the
decline
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and
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and first decade of 20th century together with some other German universities Leipzig University turned into one of the centers of higher education for state administrations and elites of newly independent
Balkan
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states (
Romania
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,
Greece
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,
Bulgaria
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and
Serbia
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) educating over 5,500 students from the region in 1859–1909 period.
Until the beginning of the
Second World War
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, Leipzig University attracted a number of renowned scholars and later
Nobel Prize laureate
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s, including Paul Ehrlich, Felix Bloch, Werner Heisenberg and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Many of the university's alumni became important scientists.
Nazi period
Under
Nazi
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rule many degrees of
Jews
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were cancelled. Some were later reinstated as Karl-Marx University degrees by the GDR. Noteworthy Nazis, such as
Max Clara
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Biography
Early life
Max Clara ...
(chair of anatomy) taught at the university and were appointed to positions with great authority.
The university was kept open throughout World War II, even after the destruction of its buildings. During the war the acting rector,
Erich Maschke
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, described the continuation of the university in a memo on 11 May 1945, announcing the vote for a new rector:
By the end of the war 60 per cent of the university's buildings and 70 per cent of its books had been destroyed.
The university under the German Democratic Republic
The university reopened after the war on 5 February 1946, but it was affected by the uniformity imposed on social institutions in the
Soviet occupation zone
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. In 1948 the freely elected student council was disbanded and replaced by
Free German Youth members. The chairman of the Student Council,
Wolfgang Natonek, and other members were arrested and imprisoned, but the university was also a nucleus of resistance. Thus began the Belter group, with flyers for free elections. The head of the group,
Herbert Belter, was executed in 1951 in Moscow. The
German Democratic Republic
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** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
was created in 1949, and in 1953 for
Karl Marx Year
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the university was renamed by its government the Karl Marx University, Leipzig after
Karl Marx
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. In 1968, the partly damaged
Augusteum, including Johanneum and Albertinum and the intact
Paulinerkirche, were demolished to make way for a redevelopment of the university, carried out between 1973 and 1978. The dominant building of the university was the University Tower (now
City-Hochhaus Leipzig
City-Hochhaus is 36- story skyscraper in Leipzig, Germany. At , it is the tallest multistory building in Leipzig and is located proximately of the eastern part of the inner city ring road in Leipzig's district Mitte. The tower was designed by ...
), built between 1968 and 1972 in the form of an open book.
After the reunification of Germany
![Bibliotheca Albertina](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Bibliotheca_Albertina.jpg)
In 1991, following the
reunification of Germany, the university's name was restored to the original Leipzig University (''Alma mater lipsiensis''). The reconstruction of the University Library, which was heavily damaged during the war and in the
GDR barely secured, was completed in 2002.
With the delivery of the
University Tower to a private user, the university was forced to spread some faculties over several locations in the city. It controversially redesigned its historical centre at the
Augustusplatz
The Augustusplatz is a square located at the east end of the city centre of Leipzig, borough Leipzig-Mitte. It is the city's largest square and one of the largest (and, prior to almost all its buildings being destroyed in bombing in the Second Wor ...
. In 2002, Behet Bonzio received the second prize in the architectural competition; a first prize was not awarded by the jury. A lobby with partial support of the provincial government called for the rebuilding of
St. Paul's Church and
Augusteum. This caused the resistance of the university leadership, the majority of the students and population of Leipzig. On 24 March 2004 a jury chose a design by Dutch architect
Erick van Egeraat
Erick van Egeraat (; born 1956) is a Dutch architect and author. He heads the architectural practice based in Rotterdam with offices in Moscow, Budapest and Prague. He is best known for his projects of ING Group Headquarters in Budapest, Drents M ...
, which was well received by almost all parties. He recalls the outer form of the St. Paul's Church (today called
Paulinum) and Augusteum, and abstracted the original building complex. Renovations began in the summer of 2005.
In 2008 the university was able to prevail in the nationwide "Initiative of Excellence" of Germany and it was granted the graduate school "
BuildMoNa: Leipzig School of Natural Sciences – Building with Molecules and Nano-objects". In addition, the university was able to receive grants from the Saxon excellence initiative for the "Life" project – a project that tries to explore common diseases more effectively. Also in 2008 the
"Bach Archive" was associated with the university. In 2009, the Leipzig University celebrated its 600th anniversary with over 300 scientific and cultural lectures and exhibitions, reflecting the role of the university's research and teaching from its beginning.
Campus
The university's urban campus comprises several locations. All in all, the university is spread across 38 locations in Leipzig. The main buildings in the city center (district
Mitte) are still located on the same land plots as the earliest university buildings in 1409. The university's buildings in the center of Leipzig underwent substantial reconstruction from 2005, the new university's main building being drafted by Dutch architect
Erick van Egeraat
Erick van Egeraat (; born 1956) is a Dutch architect and author. He heads the architectural practice based in Rotterdam with offices in Moscow, Budapest and Prague. He is best known for his projects of ING Group Headquarters in Budapest, Drents M ...
. The estimated total cost for the renovation project is 140 million euros. The new buildings were scheduled to be completed in 2009/2010, in time for the university's 600th anniversary celebrations.
Besides the faculties and other teaching institutions, several other bodies serve the university: the University Library, a university archive and administration, numerous museums (e.g. the
Museum for Music Instruments and the Museum of Ancient Egypt) and the university hospital. The university's
Leipzig Botanical Garden
The Leipzig Botanical Garden (german: Leipziger Botanische Gärten, Botanischer Garten der Universität Leipzig) is a 3.5-hectare botanical garden maintained by the University of Leipzig and is located at Linnéstraße 1, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. ...
, the second-oldest botanical garden in Europe. was established in 1542.
The university's Musical Instrument Museum includes one of the world's three surviving
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
s built by
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (; May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.
Life
The available source materials on Cristofori's life include his birth and death recor ...
, the piano's inventor. Five other Cristofori instruments are included in the Museum's collections.
Key Central institutions of the university are
* Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine
* Career Service
* Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig/DLL
* German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
* Higher Education Didactics Centre Saxony
* Kustodie (Art Collection)
*
Leipzig University Music
* Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics
* Research Academy Leipzig
* Language Centre
* Saxon Preparatory Courses (Studienkolleg Sachsen)
* Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine Leipzig
* University Archive
* University Library
* University Computer Centre
* Centre for University Sport
* Centre for Teacher Training and School Research
* Centre for Media and Communikation
Library
The
University Library of Leipzig was established in 1543. It is one of the oldest German university libraries and it serves as a source of literature and information for the Leipzig University as well as the general public in the region. Its extensive historical and special collections are nationally and internationally recognized. The library consists of the main building "Bibliotheca Albertina" and forty branches situated near their respective academic institutions. The current stock comprises 5 million volumes and about 7,700 periodicals. Collections range from important medieval and modern manuscripts to incunabula, papyri, autographs, ostraka and coins. The
Apel Codex
The Apel Codex is a German manuscript which dates from about the year 1500, providing an important source for 15th and 16th century polyphonic music. The works in the manuscript were collected by Nikolaus Apel from about 1490 to 1504. They consis ...
, a manuscript of 16th century music, is housed in the Leipzig University library, as well as the
Papyrus Ebers.
The Leipzig University Library also owns parts of the
Codex Sinaiticus
The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts) ...
, a Bible manuscript from the 4th century, brought from
Sinai
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* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
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in 1843 by
Constantin von Tischendorf
Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus a ...
.
Papyrus Ebers is the longest and oldest surviving medical manuscript from ancient Egypt, dated to around 1600 BC. The Codex contains large parts of the Old Testament and a complete New Testament in ancient Greek, and is one of the most important known manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament and the New Testament. It is the oldest fully preserved copy of the New Testament.
Some of the University Library locations in Leipzig are:
* Bibliotheca Albertina at Beethovenstraße 6
* Campus Library at Universitätsstr. 3
* Library of Deutsches Literaturinstitut at Wächterstr. 34
* Library of Arts at Dittrichring 18–20
* Library of Musicology at Neumarkt 9–19
* Library of Law at Burgstr. 27
* Library of Medicine at Johannisallee 34
* Library of Medicine at Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 82
* Library of Veterinary Medicine at the Tierkliniken 5
* Library of Biosciences at Talstr. 35
* Library of Chemistry and Physics at Johannisallee 29
* Library of Earth Sciences at Talstr. 35
* Library of Geography at Johannisallee 19
* Library of Archaeology, Prehistory and Ancient History at Ritterstr. 14
* Library of Oriental Studies at Schillerstr. 6
* Library of Sports Science at Jahnallee 59
In addition to the university library, one of the two centers of the
German National Library
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is based at Leipzig, the collections of which are open to use for academic research.
Faculties
The original four facilities were the Faculty of Arts, Theology, Medicine, and Law. As of November 2021, the university comprises the following 14 faculties with institutes and centers associated with each one.
; Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy
* Institute of Analytical Chemistry
* Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry
* Institute of Chemical Technology
* Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
* Institute of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Materials Science
* Institute of Organic Chemistry
* Wilhelm Ostwald Institut of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
; Faculty of Economics and Management Science
* Institute of Accounting, Finance and Taxation (IUFB)
* Institute of Building Design and Management (IGB)
* Institute of Business Education and Management Training (IFW)
* Institute of Economic Policy (IWP)
* Institute of Empirical Economic Research (IEW)
* Institute of Information Systems
* Institute of Infrastructure and Resource Management (IIRM)
* Institute of Insurance Science (IVL)
* Institute of Public Finance and Public Management (PFPM)
* Institute of Real Estate Management (IIM)
* Institute of Service and Relationship Management (ISRM)
* Institute of Theoretical Economics (ITVWL)
* Institute of Trade and Banking (IHB)
* Institute of Urban Development and Construction Management (ISB)
; Faculty of Education
* Institute of Educational Sciences
* Institute of Pre-Primary and Primary Education
* Institute of Special and Inclusive Education
; Faculty of History, Arts and Regional Studies
* Department of History
* Institute of African Studies
* Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
* Institute of Anthropology
* Institute of Art Education
* Institute of Art History
* Institute of East Asian Studies
* Institute of Egyptology
* Institute of Musicology
* Institute of Oriental Studies
* Institute of South and Central Asian Studies
* Institute of the Study of Religions
* Institute of Theatre Studies
; Faculty of Law
* Ernst Jaeger Institute of Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law
* Institute of Broadcasting Law
* Institute of Energy and Regulatory Law
* Institute of Environmental and Planning Law
* Institute of Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law
* Institute of German and International Law of Banking and Capital Markets
* Institute of International Law
* Institute of Labour and Social Law
* Institute of Law and Politics
* Institute of Public International Law, European Law and Foreign Public Law
* Institute of Tax Law
* Institute of the Foundations of Law
* Institute of the Legal Profession
; Faculty of Life Sciences
* Institute of Biochemistry
* Institute of Biology
* Wilhelm Wundt Institute of Psychology
; Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
* Institute of Computer Science
* Institute of Mathematics
; Faculty of Medicine
* Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology
* Centre for Clinical Trials Leipzig
* Centre for Environmental Medicine and Environmental Epidemiology
* Clinical Pharmacology
* Experimental Centre of the Faculty of Medicine
* General Medicine Unit
* Heart Center Leipzig GmbH
* Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS)
* Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics
* Institute of Anatomy
* Institute of Biochemistry (medicine)
* Institute of Legal Medicine
* Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology
* Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health
* Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) AdiposityDiseases
* Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research
* Karl-Sudhoff-Institute of History of Medicine and Science
* LIFE Forschungszentrum für Zivilisationserkrankungen (LIFE)
* Neurological Rehabilitation Centre
* Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research
* Rudolf Boehm Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
; Faculty of Philology
* Institute of American Studies
* Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translatology
* Institute of British Studies
* Institute of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature
* Herder-Institute (German as a Foreign Language)
* Institute of German Language and Literature
* Institute of Linguistics
* Institute of Romance Studies
* Institute of Slavonic Studies
* Institute of Sorbian Studies
; Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences
* Institute of Geography
* Institute of Geophysics and Geology
* Institute of Meteorology
* Peter Debye Institute of Soft Matter Physics
* Felix Bloch Institute of Solid State Physics
* Institute of Theoretical Physics
; Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
* Institute of Communication and Media Studies
* Institute of Global and European Studies
* Institute of Philosophy
* Institute of Political Science
* Institute of Sociology
* Institute of the Study of Culture
; Faculty of Sport Science
* Institute of Sport Medicine and Prevention
* Institute of General Kinesiology and Athletics Training
* Institute of Movement and Training Science in Sports I
* Institute of Movement and Training Science in Sports II
* Institute of Exercise and Public Health
* Institute of Sport Psychology and Physical Education
; Faculty of Theology
* Institute of Church History
* Institute of New Testament Science
* Institute of Old Testament Studies
* Institute of Practical Theology
* Institute of Religious Education
* Institute of Systematic Theology
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
* Department for birds and reptiles
* Department for horses
* Department for ruminants and swine
* Department for small animal
* Institute of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology
* Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health
* Institute of Animal Nutrition, Nutrition Diseases and Dietetics
* Institute of Bacteriology and Mycology
* Institute of Food Hygiene
* Institute of Immunology
* Institute of Parasitology
* Institute of Pathology
* Institute of Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Toxicology
* Institute of Physiological Chemistry
* Institute of Physiology
* Institute of Virology
* Oberholz Farm for Teaching and Research
Institutes affiliated with the university
* International Max Planck Research School- Mathematics in the Sciences (IMPRS MiS), in association with
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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MiS) in Leipzig is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Founded on March 1, 1996, the institute works on projects which apply mathematics in various areas of natural science ...
* International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity, in association with
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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* International Max Planck Research School "The Leipzig School of Human Origins", in association with
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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* Institute of Non-Classical Chemistry e.V
* Institute for Applied Informatics
* Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University
* Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe
*
Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine
*
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
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* Institute of East Asian Studies of the Leipzig University
* Institute of Classical Archaeology of the Leipzig University
* Institute for International Law, European Law and Foreign Public Law (InVEA) of the Leipzig University
Academics
Today, the university has 14 faculties. With over 29,000 students, it is Saxony's second-largest university. There are now more than 150 institutes and the university offers 190 study programs leading to
Bachelor's degree
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s,
Master's degree
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Staatsexamen
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,
Diplom (equivalent to Master's degree) and
Ph.D.s.
The university offers a number of courses in English and other foreign languages, and there are several programs which have been specially designed for foreign students. Exchange partner universities include the universities of
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
,
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
,
Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
,
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
,
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, and
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
. Traditionally contacts to universities in Eastern Europe and the Far East are strong as well, e.g. there are cooperations with leading institutions such as Moscow's
Lomonosov University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
and
Renmin University
The Renmin University of China (RUC; ) is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
RUC ...
in Beijing.
![Anatomie-Leipzig](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Anatomie-Leipzig.jpg)
There are several International Master's programs: American Studies, Global Studies, Sustainable Development Studies, SEPT (MBA in SME Promotion) and one Bachelor/Master's/Ph.D. program (International Physics Studies Program) taught in English. American Studies Leipzig was awarded three international professorships: The Fulbright-Leipzig Chair for American Studies, the DAAD Professorship for American and International Studies, and the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature. It is also the home of
''Aspeers – Emerging voices in American Studies'', a graduate-level peer-reviewed scholarly journal for
American studies
American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture. It traditionally incorporates literary criticism, historiography and critical theory.
Sch ...
. Erasmus Mundus Global Studies is an interdisciplinary, research-based Master offered by a consortium of five European universities: Leipzig University, the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
,
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
,
University of Wroclaw
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...
and
Roskilde University
Roskilde University ( da, Roskilde Universitet, abbreviated RUC or RU) is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde. The university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD ...
. In the field of anthropology, the university is cooperating with the Leipzig
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (german: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Plan ...
. In 1995, the Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture named after
Simon Dubnow
Simon Dubnow (alternatively spelled Dubnov, rus, Семён Ма́ркович Ду́бнов, Semyon Markovich Dubnov, sʲɪˈmʲɵn ˈmarkəvʲɪtɕ ˈdubnəf; yi, שמעון דובנאָװ, ''Shimen Dubnov''; 10 September 1860 – 8 Dece ...
was formed as a research institution related to the university. Since 2008 the university is also home to one of Germany's few
Confucius Institute
Confucius Institutes (CI; ) are public educational and cultural promotion programs funded and arranged currently by the , a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic o ...
s. The institute is based on an agreement of June 2006 between the university administration and representatives of the Chinese Embassy to establish a Confucius Institute in cooperation with the Renmin University and the "National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language". Leipzig University has been the home of the first German chair for Chinese and East Asian Languages in the 19th century, which later became the Institute of East Asian Studies, which still exists today (see
Georg von der Gabelentz
Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz (16 March 1840 – 11 December 1893) was a German general linguist and sinologist. His (1881), according to a critic, "remains until today recognized as probably the finest overall grammatical survey of the Clas ...
).
Rankings
The university is ranked 18th in Germany, 98th in Europe, and 264th in the world by the web-based Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, a ranking evaluating universities' scientific online publications. The 2018
ARWU ranking sees Leipzig climbing in the 151–200 tier being among the top 14 German universities. Leipzig has constantly been ranked among the German top 10 in various university sport disciplines over the past decades.
International students
Leipzig university has a large body of international students. In winter term 2017, out of its 28,797 students about 11% (3,174) were foreign students.
Student life
Leipzig has a thriving student life with a large number of student run bars, sports clubs and recreational facilities for students. The student body in Leipzig is diverse, not only due to the broad spectrum of subjects at the university but also because of the other higher education institutions in the city. The
Moritzbastei
The Moritzbastei is the only remaining part of the ancient town fortifications of Leipzig. Today it is widely known as a cultural centre.
History of the building
The Moritzbastei was built as a bastion in between 1551 and 1554 under the super ...
is the largest student club in Germany, it is part of the historic city fortifications of Leipzig and is famous for its atmosphere and large number of cultural events.
The university is home to the Leipzig Academic Orchestra and the University Choir of Leipzig. There are numerous courses offered in performing arts every semester and a dance festival is organised by students once a year. In the field of sports, the university offers training opportunities and courses in almost all disciplines. During the annual Leipzig book fair, the university library and other university institutions organise public events for authors.
Notable people
![Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Portrait_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche.jpg)
Leipzig University has produced many notable individuals and noble laureates. Some famous people affiliated with Leipzig include:
Music
*
Johann Christoph Altnickol
Johann Christoph Altnickol, or Altnikol, (baptised 1 January 1720, buried 25 July 1759) was a German organist, bass singer, and composer. He was a student, copyist and son-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Biography
Altnikol was born in Berna bei ...
, German composer, son-in-law to Johann Sebastian Bach
*
Johann Friedrich Agricola
Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.
Biography
Agricola was born in Dobitschen, Thu ...
, German composer, pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach
*
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...
, German composer, second famous son of
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...
*
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (21 June 1732 – 26 January 1795) was a harpsichordist and composer, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach".
Born in Leipzig in the Electorate of Saxony, he was ...
, German composer, 3rd famous son of Johann Sebastian Bach
*
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 17101 July 1784), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer. Despite his acknowledged genius as an organist, improviser and compose ...
, German composer, first famous son of Johann Sebastian Bach
*
Lorenz Christoph Mizler
Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof (also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff; 26 July 1711 – 8 May 1778) was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music composer, and precursor of the Enlightenme ...
, German composer and music theorist, pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach
*
Friedrich Blume
Friedrich Blume (5 January 1893, in Schlüchtern, Hesse-Nassau – 22 November 1975, in Schlüchtern) was professor of musicology at the University of Kiel from 1938 to 1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the las ...
, German music theorist
*
Robert Schumann, German music composer
*
Christoph Graupner, German composer
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Johann Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau (; 6 April 16605 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his offici ...
, German composer,
Thomaskantor
(Cantor at St. Thomas) is the common name for the musical director of the , now an internationally known boys' choir founded in Leipzig in 1212. The official historic title of the Thomaskantor in Latin, ', describes the two functions of cantor a ...
*
Johann David Heinichen
Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus II the Strong in Dresden. After he died, Heinichen's music attracted little a ...
, German composer and music theorist, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon
Kapellmeister
*
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
, German composer
*
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hild ...
, German composer, godfather to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Humanities
*
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...
, German historian, Nobel Prize in Literature
*
Franz Delitzsch
Franz Delitzsch (23 February 1813, in Leipzig – 4 March 1890, in Leipzig) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of ...
, German Theologian and Hebrew Scholar
*
Michael Ranft
Michael Ranft (or Ranfft; also Rauff), in Latin Michael Ranfftius (9 December 1700 in Güldengossa – 18 April 1774 in Löbichau) was a Lutheran pastor, writer and historian who is known for his writings on vampires in Germany.
Biography
A past ...
, German historian and theologian.
*
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...
, German philosopher
*
Johann Wolfgang von 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 trea ...
, German poet and polymath
*
Max Muller, philologist and Orientalist who wrote authoritative works on Indology.
*
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism ...
, American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American
Distributionalism
Distributionalism was a general theory of language and a discovery procedure for establishing elements and structures of language based on observed usage. It can be seen as an elaboration of structuralism but takes a more computational approach. ...
.
*
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 ''magnum opus'', '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''), on hermeneutics.
Life
Family ...
, German philosopher and rector of the university
*
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched (2 February 1700 – 12 December 1766) was a German philosopher, author and critic of the Enlightenment.
Biography
Early life
He was born at Juditten (Mendeleyevo) near Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Brandenburg-Pr ...
, German poet, author, and critic
*
Christian Friedrich Henrici, German poet, Saxon Actuary, Postal clerk, Postal Commissioner, and Wine inspector
*
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the developmen ...
, German philosopher and writer
*
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang ( ; October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generati ...
, Chinese author and linguist
*
Nathan Söderblom
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom (; 15 January 1866 – 12 July 1931) was a Swedish clergyman. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala between 1914 and 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemorated in the Cale ...
, Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize
*
C. F. W. Walther, first President of the
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian.
*
Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist, founder of structuralism
Sciences
*
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathem ...
, German Mathematician who developed
calculus
Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape, and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithm ...
, philosopher, polymath
*
Felix Klein
Christian Felix Klein (; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and grou ...
, German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis and non-Euclidean geometry
*
Sophus Lie
Marius Sophus Lie ( ; ; 17 December 1842 – 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
Life and career
Marius Soph ...
, Norwegian mathematician who developed
Lie algebra
In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an Binary operation, operation called the Lie bracket, an Alternating multilinear map, alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow ...
*
August Ferdinand Möbius
August Ferdinand Möbius (, ; ; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
Early life and education
Möbius was born in Schulpforta, Electorate of Saxony, and was descended on his ...
, German mathematician and theoretical astronomer, known for the
Möbius strip.
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Karl Mollweide
Karl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he discovered the formula known as Mollweide's formula. He invented a map projection call ...
, German mathematician and astronomer, known for the
Mollweide projection
400px, Mollweide projection of the world
400px, The Mollweide projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation
The Mollweide projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for maps of the world or celestial sph ...
*
Hermann Hankel
Hermann Hankel (14 February 1839 – 29 August 1873) was a German mathematician. Having worked on mathematical analysis during his career, he is best known for introducing the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.
Biography
Hankel was born on ...
, German mathematician, known for the
Hankel transform
In mathematics, the Hankel transform expresses any given function ''f''(''r'') as the weighted sum of an infinite number of Bessel functions of the first kind . The Bessel functions in the sum are all of the same order ν, but differ in a scaling ...
*
Felix Hausdorff
Felix Hausdorff ( , ; November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, an ...
, German mathematician, one of the founders of modern topology, known for the Hausdorff space
* Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician
* Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler German mathematician, physicist and lawyer, author of 'Physikalisches Wörterbuch'
* Edgar Odell Lovett, American mathematician
* Wei-Liang Chow, Chinese mathematician and stamp collector born in Shanghai, known for his work in algebraic geometry.
* Johann Heinrich Winckler, German physicist
* Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
* Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
* Friedrich Hund, German physicist, discovered quantum tunnelling and is known for Hund's rules
* Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Austro-Hungarian physicist
* Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
*
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe ( ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; generally called Tycho (14 December 154624 October 1601) was a Danish astronomer, known for his comprehensive astronomical observations, generally considered to be the most accurate of his time. He was k ...
, Danish astronomer
* Gustav Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
* Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
* William Vermillion Houston, American physicist
* Edward Teller, Hungaro-American nuclear scientist, member of the Manhattan Project
* Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*
Wilhelm Ostwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (; 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist and German philosophy, philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst, ...
, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Paul Ehrlich, German doctor, Nobel Prize in Medicine
* Svante Pääbo, Noble Prize in Medicine, currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university
* Gustav Theodor Fechner, German psychologist, founder of Psychophysics
* Maximilian von Frey, physiologist, inventor of the esthesiometer
* Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician and professor whose studies paved the way for the founding of Psychology
* Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist, founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research
* Friedrich Trendelenburg, German surgeon, described surgical removal of pulmonary emboli
[Arch Klin Chir 86:686, 2908, 1908]
Politics
* Luo Gan, Chinese Politician, Member of the Politburo Standing Committee
* Johann Major, German Lutheran theologian, a principal author of the so-called Leipzig Interim, and author of the Majoristic Controversy
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Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Oppo ...
, first female Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), German Chancellor
* Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor
* Rudolph Sohm, lawyer and Church history, Church historian
* Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University and leading thinker in the early Chinese communist movement
* Michelle Bachelet, first female President of Chile between 2006 and 2010
* Selig Brodetsky, Israeli President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Raila Odinga, Raila Amolo Odinga, Kenyan politician
Sports
* Luz Long, German Olympic long-jumper, noted for his sportsmanship
See also
* Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL)
* Leipzig school (sociology)
* List of medieval universities
* List of universities in Germany
Notes
References
Literature
* Anne-Kathleen Tillack-Graf: ''Institute of Communication and Media Studies (University of Leipzig).'' The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. SAGE Publications, 2019, ISBN 978-14833-7553-3.
External links
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