The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a
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research university
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located in
Vienna
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Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. It was founded by
Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the
German-speaking world
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. With its long and rich history, the university has developed into one of the largest universities in Europe, and also one of the most renowned, especially in the
Humanities
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.
It is associated with 21
Nobel prize winners
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and has been the academic home to many scholars of historical as well as of academic importance.
History
From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
The university was founded on March 12, 1365, by
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
Rudolf IV (1 November 1339 – 27 July 1365), also called Rudolf the Founder (german: der Stifter), was a scion of the House of Habsburg who ruled as duke of Austria (self-proclaimed archduke), Styria and Carinthia from 1358, as well as count ...
, hence the name "Alma Mater Rudolphina".
After the
Charles University in Prague
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and
Jagiellonian University in
Kraków
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, the University of Vienna is the third oldest university in Central Europe and the oldest university in the contemporary German-speaking world; it remains a question of definition as the Charles University in Prague was German-speaking when founded, too. However,
Pope Urban V
Pope Urban V ( la, Urbanus V; 1310 – 19 December 1370), born Guillaume de Grimoard, was the head of the Catholic Church from 28 September 1362 until his death in December 1370 and was also a member of the Order of Saint Benedict. He was the ...
did not ratify the deed of foundation that had been sanctioned by Rudolf IV, specifically in relation to the department of theology. This was presumably due to pressure exerted by
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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, who wished to avoid competition for the
Charles University in Prague
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.
The pope later granted an endowment to the university in 1365, while papal assent was finally received in 1384. This led to the University of Vienna and its Faculty of Catholic Theology being granted the status of a full university. The first university building opened in 1385. It grew into the biggest university of the
Holy Roman Empire
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, and during the advent of
Humanism
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The meaning of the term "humani ...
in the mid-15th century was home to more than 6,000 students.
In its early years, the university had a partly hierarchical, partly cooperative structure, in which the
Rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
was at the top, while the students had little said and were settled at the bottom. The
Magister and
Doctor
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Personal titles
* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
** ...
s constituted the four faculties and elected the academic officials from amidst their ranks. The students, but also all other Supposita (university members), were divided into four
Academic Nations. Their elected board members, mostly graduates themselves, had the right to elect the Rector. He presided over the Consistory which included procurators of each of the nations and the faculty deans, as well as over the University Assembly, in which all university teachers participated. Complaints or appeals against decisions of faculty by the students had to be brought forward by a Magister or Doctor.
Being considered a Papal Institution, the university suffered quite a setback during the
Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
. In addition, epidemics, economic stagnation and the first
Siege of Vienna by Ottoman forces had devastating effects on the city, leading to a sharp decline in enrollment. For Emperor
Ferdinand I, this meant that the university should be tied to the church to an even stronger degree, and in 1551 he installed the
Jesuit Order
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there.
As time went on, conflicts between the Jesuit school and the university arose. This led Emperor
Ferdinand II, in 1623, to pass a law that incorporated the Jesuit College into the university. It was only in the mid-18th century that the Jesuits lost influence over the university and when Empress
Maria Theresa ensured that the university went under the control of the monarchy. The university would later focus on the education of physicians and civil servants. Her successor
Joseph II
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 29, 1780 un ...
continued her reforms and further liberalized the university, abolishing official attire and allowing both Protestants and Jews to enroll by 1782, as well as introducing German as the compulsory language of instruction the year later.
From the 19th century onwards
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Big changes were instituted in the wake of the
Revolution in 1848
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, with the Philosophical Faculty being upgraded into equal status as Theology, Law and Medicine. Led by the reforms of
Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein
Leopold Graf von Thun und Hohenstein (7 April 181117 December 1888) was a leading Austrian statesman from the Thun und Hohenstein family.
Early life
He was born in Děčín (Tetschen) as the third son of Count Franz von Thun und Hohenstein. A ...
, the university was able to achieve a larger degree of academic freedom.
The current main building on the
Ringstraße
The Vienna Ring Road (german: Ringstraße, lit. ''ring road'') is a 5.3 km (3.3 mi) circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic Innere Stadt (Inner Town) district of Vienna, Austria. The road is located on sites where ...
was built between 1877 and 1884 by
Heinrich von Ferstel
Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel (7 July 1828 14 July 1883) was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.
Life
The son of Ignaz Ferstel (17961866), a bank clerk and later director of the ...
. The previous main building was located close to the ''Stuben'' Gate (Stubentor) on Iganz Seipel Square, current home of the old University Church (''Universitätskirche'') and the
Austrian Academy of Sciences (''Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften''). Women were admitted as full students from 1897, although their studies were limited to Philosophy. The remaining departments gradually followed suit, although with considerable delay: Medicine in 1900, Law in 1919,
Protestant
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Theology in 1923 and finally
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
Theology in 1946. Ten years after the admission of the first female students,
Elise Richter became the first woman to receive ''
habilitation'', becoming professor of
Romance Languages
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in 1907; she was also the first female distinguished professor.
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In the late 1920s, the university was in steady turmoil because of anti-democratic and anti-Semitic activity by parts of the student body. Professor
Moritz Schlick
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; ; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.
Early life and works
Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy Prussian f ...
was killed by a former student while ascending the steps of the university for a class. His murderer was later released by the Nazi regime. Following the
Anschluss
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The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
, the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the
Nazi regime
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, in 1938 the University of Vienna was reformed under political aspects and a huge number of teachers and students were dismissed for political and "racial" reasons. In April 1945, the then 22-year-old Kurt Schubert, later acknowledged
doyen
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of
Judaic Studies
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at the University of Vienna, was permitted by the
Soviet occupation forces to open the university again for teaching, which is why he is regarded as the unofficial first rector in the post-war period. On 25 April 1945, however, the constitutional lawyer
Ludwig Adamovich senior was elected as official rector of the University of Vienna. A large degree of participation by students and university staff was realized in 1975, however, the University Reforms of 1993 and 2002 largely re-established the professors as the main decision makers. However, also as part of the 2002 reform, the university, after more than 250 years of being largely under governmental control, finally regained its full legal capacity. The number of faculties and centers was increased to 18, and the whole of the medical faculty separated into the new
Medical University of Vienna.
Location
The University of Vienna does not have one single campus. Historically, the university started functioning from the First District near the Jesuit Church. Now, the academic facilities occupy more than sixty locations throughout the city of Vienna. The historical main building on the Ringstraße constitutes the university's centre and is commonly referred to as "die Uni". Most other larger university facilities and lecture halls are located nearby in the area of Vienna's First and Ninth
District
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: the so-called new Lecture Hall Complex (Neues Institutgebäude, NIG), the lecture hall complex Althanstraße (UZA), the campus on the premises of the
Historical General Hospital of Vienna, the Faculty of Law (Juridicum) and others. The
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna is a botanical garden in Vienna, Austria. It covers 8 hectares and is immediately adjacent to the Belvedere gardens. It is a part of the University of Vienna.
The gardens date back to 1754 when Em ...
is housed in the Third District, as are the Department of Biochemistry and related research centres.
Also worth mentioning is the
Vienna Observatory
The Vienna Observatory (german: Universitätssternwarte Wien) is an astronomical observatory in Vienna, Austria. It is part of the University of Vienna. The first observatory was built in 1753–1754 on the roof of one of the university buildings ...
, which belongs to the university, and the Institute for University Sports (USI), which offers training and recreational possibilities to all students of the university.
In addition, the University of Vienna maintains facilities outside of Vienna in the Austrian provinces of
Lower Austria
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,
Upper Austria
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, and
Carinthia
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. These are mainly research and experimental departments for Biology, Astrophysics and Sports.
Organization
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The University of Vienna, like all universities and academies in Austria, once featured a system of democratic representation. Power in the university was divided equally among three groups: students (the largest group), junior faculty and full professors. All groups had the right to send representatives to boards, who then voted on almost every issue. From 2002 on, the government of Austria, headed by
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 ...
Wolfgang Schüssel
Wolfgang Schüssel (; born 7 June 1945) is an Austrian People's Party politician. He was Chancellor of Austria for two consecutive terms from February 2000 to January 2007. While being recognised as a rare example of an active reformer in conte ...
, reformed the university system, transforming the institutions into legal entities, but also concentrating power in the hands of the full professors. The reform also introduced a board of governors and tuition fees. In 2013, those amounted to about €381 per semester for students from Austria, the
European Union
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as well as some non-EU countries, while students from developed non-EU countries usually pay double that amount. The reforms also separated the medical departments into separate medical schools, such as the
Medical University of Vienna.
Programmes
Students at the university can select from 181 degree programmes: 55
bachelor programmes, 110
master programmes, 3
diploma programs and 13
doctoral programmes. In the academic year 2013/14, the university awarded 7,745 first degrees (Bachelors and
Diplomas), 1,424 Master's degrees and 568 Doctoral degrees. The university offers a number of Masters programs in English, including Quantitative Economics, Management and Finance, Science-Technology-Society, Environmental Sciences, Middle European interdisciplinary Master Programme in Cognitive Science, European Master in Health and Physical Activity, English Language and Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, East Asian Economy and Society, Economics, Botany, Ecology and Ecosystems, Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology, European Master in Urban Studies, Masters in European and International Business Law, Mathematics, etc.
Some 6,900 scholars undertake the research and teaching activity of the university. Of these, approximately 1,000 engage actively in projects financed by third parties. The main fields of research at the university cover a wide spectrum of subjects: Catholic and Protestant Theology, Law, Economic Sciences and Computer Science, Philological-Cultural Studies and Historical-Cultural Studies, Social Sciences and Psychology, Life Sciences and Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Sports Sciences and Teacher Education.
Faculties and centres
The University of Vienna consists of 15 faculties and five centres:
# Faculty of
Catholic Theology
# Faculty of
Protestant Theology
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# Faculty of Law
# Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics (not to be confused with the
Vienna University of Economics and Business
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)
# Faculty of
Computer science
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# Faculty of
Historical and Cultural Studies
# Faculty of
Philological and Cultural Studies
# Faculty of Philosophy and Education
# Faculty of
Psychology
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# Faculty of
Social sciences
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# Faculty of
Mathematics
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# Faculty of
Physics
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# Faculty of
Chemistry
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# Faculty of
Earth Sciences
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,
Geography
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and
Astronomy
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# Faculty of
Life sciences
# Centre for
Translation studies
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# Centre for
Sport science
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and University Sports
# Centre for
Molecular biology
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# Centre for
Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
# Centre for
Teacher Education
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Notable people
Faculty and scholars
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Nobel Prize Laureates who taught at the University of Vienna include
Robert Bárány,
Julius Wagner-Jauregg,
Hans Fischer
Hans Fischer (; 27 July 1881 – 31 March 1945) was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of ha ...
,
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-born American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from ...
,
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or , was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theo ...
,
Victor Franz Hess
Victor Franz Hess (; 24 June 188317 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays.
Biography
He was born to Vinzenz Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein ...
,
Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi (; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For his discovery he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or M ...
,
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded ...
and
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...
.
The University of Vienna was the cradle of the
Austrian School
The Austrian School is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result exclusively from the motivations and actions of individuals. Austrian schoo ...
of economics. The founders of this school who studied and later instructed at the University of Vienna included
Carl Menger,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk (; born Eugen Böhm, 12 February 185127 August 1914) was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of the Austrian School of Economics and neoclassical economics. He served intermittent ...
,
Friedrich von Wieser
Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser (; 10 July 1851 – 22 July 1926) was an early (so-called "first generation") economist of the Austrian School of economics. Born in Vienna, the son of Privy Councillor Leopold von Wieser, a high official in the war m ...
,
Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian-born political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at H ...
,
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and Sociology, sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberali ...
and
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...
.
Other famous scholars who have taught at the University of Vienna are:
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno ( , ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer.
He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of criti ...
,
Alexander Van der Bellen
Alexander Van der Bellen (; born 18 January 1944) is the current president of Austria. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.
...
,
Manfred Bietak
Manfred Bietak (born in Vienna, 6 October 1940) is an Austrian archaeologist.[Theodor Billroth
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (26 April 18296 February 1894) was a German surgeon and amateur musician.
As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. As a musician, he was a close friend and conf ...]
,
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of ther ...
,
Ulrich Brand,
Franz Brentano
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano (; ; 16 January 1838 – 17 March 1917) was an influential German philosopher, psychologist, and former Catholic priest (withdrawn in 1873 due to the definition of papal infallibility in matters ...
,
Anton Bruckner,
Rudolf Carnap,
Conrad Celtes
Conrad Celtes (german: Konrad Celtes; la, Conradus Celtis (Protucius); 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508) was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria). He led the ...
,
Adrian Constantin
Adrian Constantin (born 22 April 1970) is a Romanian-Austrian mathematician who does research in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations.Wittgenstein Preis 2020 to Adrian Constantin' Universität Wien: Fakultät für Mathematik, 17 ...
,
Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997)
was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is pa ...
,
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
,
Karl Samuel Grünhut,
Eduard Hanslick,
Edmund Hauler Edmund Hauler (17 November 1859, in Buda – 1 April 1941, in Vienna) was an Austrian classical philology, classical philologist born in Ofen to a Danube Swabian Germans, German family. His father, Johann Hauler (1829–1888) was also a classical ph ...
,
Jalile Jalil
Jalileh ( fa, جليله, also Romanized as Jalīleh; also known as Jalile) is a village in Gol-e Cheydar Rural District, Sarshiv District, Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 148, in 32 families. The ...
,
Leon Kellner
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Places
Europe
* León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León
* Province of León, Spain
* Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again f ...
,
Hans Kelsen
Hans Kelsen (; ; October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He was the author of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which to a very large degree is still valid today. Due to the rise ...
,
Adam František Kollár
Adam František Kollár de Keresztén (german: Adam Franz Kollar von Keresztén, hu, kereszténi Kollár Ádám Ferenc; 1718–1783) was a Slovak jurist, Imperial-Royal Court Councillor and Chief Imperial-Royal Librarian, a member of Natio Hun ...
,
Johann Josef Loschmidt
Johann Josef Loschmidt (15 March 1821 – 8 July 1895), who referred to himself mostly as Josef Loschmidt (omitting his first name), was a notable Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, ...
,
Franz Miklosich
Franz Miklosich (german: Franz Ritter von Miklosich, also known in Slovene as ; 20 November 1813 – 7 March 1891) was a Slovene philologist.
Early life
Miklosich was born in the small village of Radomerščak near the Lower Styrian town of Lju ...
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Oskar Morgenstern
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Otto Neurath
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Johann Palisa,
Pope Pius II
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Karl Popper
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,
Elise Richter,
Baron Carl von Rokitansky
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Rudolf von Scherer,
Peter Schuster
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August Schleicher
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Moritz Schlick
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Early life and works
Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy Prussian f ...
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Ludwig Karl Schmarda
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Schmarda was born at Olmütz where he attended the Grammar School and the Philosophical Course a ...
,
Joseph von Sonnenfels
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Josef Stefan
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Life and work
Stefan was born in an outskirt village of St. Peter (Slovene: ; to ...
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Olga Taussky-Todd
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,
Walter G. Url,
Leopold Vietoris,
Carl Auer von Welsbach
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, and
Wilhelm Winkler
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Biography
Early life
Wil ...
.
Alumni
Some of the university's better-known students include:
Kurt Adler
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Franz Alt,
Wilhelm Altar,
Maria Anwander
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Bruno Bettelheim
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Rudolf Bing
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,
Lucian Blaga
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Biography
Blaga was born on 9 May 1895 ...
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Hedda Bolgar
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Bolgar was born in Zurich, S ...
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Josef Breuer
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F. F. Bruce
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Elias Canetti
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Ivan Cankar
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Otto Maria Carpeaux
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Carpeaux was born Otto Karpfen in 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to a Jewish f ...
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Christian Doppler
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Felix Ehrenhaft
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Mihai Eminescu
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Stephen Ferguson,
Paul Feyerabend
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Heinz Fischer
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O. W. Fischer
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Ivan Franko
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Sigmund Freud
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Adolf Albrecht Friedländer,
Alcide De Gasperi
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De Gas ...
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Hilda Geiringer
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Life
Geiringer was born in 1893 in Vienna, Austria into a Jewish family. Her father, Ludwig Geiri ...
,
Kurt Gödel,
Ernst Gombrich
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Franz Grillparzer
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Werner Gruber
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Gruber grew up in Ans ...
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Jörg Haider
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was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of ...
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Hans Hahn,
Theodor Herzl
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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,
Edmund Husserl
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Marie Jahoda,
Max Jammer,
Elfriede Jelinek
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Percy Lavon Julian
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Percy Julian,
Karl Kautsky
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Elisabeth Kehrer,
Leon Kellner
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Hans Kelsen
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Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,
Jan Kickert
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,
Rudolf Kirchschläger
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Arthur Koestler
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Jernej Kopitar
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Karl Kordesch
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Life
Kordesch was born in Vie ...
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Arnold Krammer
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Karl Kraus,
Bruno Kreisky
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Karl Samuel Grünhut,
Anneliese Hitzenberger,
Richard Kuhn
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Early life
Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austr ...
,
Hermann F. Kvergić,
Paul Lazarsfeld
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,
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
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Gustav Mahler,
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Lise Meitner,
Gregor Mendel
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Karl Menger
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Franz Mesmer,
Franz Miklosich
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Miklosich was born in the small village of Radomerščak near the Lower Styrian town of Lju ...
,
Alois Mock
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Lif ...
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Wolf-Dieter Montag
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Matija Murko
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Murko was born in the small village of Drs ...
,
Joachim Oppenheim
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Eduard Pernkopf,
Anton Piëch
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Pope Pius III
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Hans Popper
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Karl Popper
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,
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor.
He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gai ...
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Wilhelm Reich
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,
Peter Safar
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Early life
Safar was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1924 into a m ...
,
Monika Salzer,
Mordkhe Schaechter
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Karl Schenkl,
Peter Schuster
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,
Arthur Schnitzler
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Biography
Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy ...
,
Marianne Schmidl
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Andreas Schnider
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,
Albin Schram,
Joseph Schumpeter
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,
Wolfgang Schüssel
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,
John J. Shea, Jr.
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,
Felix Somary
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Life
The son of a lawyer, Somary studied law and economy at the Un ...
,
Adalbert Stifter
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Countess Stoeffel
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In 1919 Mrs. Wood founded the Art-O-Graf Film company of Denver, and she was on the board of directors. In 1920 Mrs. ...
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Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar,
Eric Voegelin
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,
Kurt Waldheim
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,
Otto Weininger
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,
Slavko Wolf,
Eduard Zirm
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Zirm was born in Vienna, he studied medicine at the University o ...
,
Mordecai Sandberg Mordecai (Markus) Sandberg ( he, מרדכי זנדברג) (February 4, 1897December 28, 1973) was a composer and physician. He was a creative and prolific composer, a musical theorist, and an innovative physician in the area of alternative and nat ...
,
Calvin Edouard Ward,
Paul Niel,
Stefan Zweig, and
Huldrych Zwingli
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Nobel Prize Laureates
There are total 16
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s affiliated to the university as follows:
The University Library
The University Library of the University of Vienna comprises the Main Library and the 50 departmental libraries at the various university locations throughout
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. The library's primary responsibility is to the members of the university; however, the library's 350 staff members also provide access to the public. Use of the books in the reading halls is open to all persons without the need for identification, which is only required for checking out books. The library's website provides direct access to information such as electronic journals, online indices and databases.
Library history
Rudolf IV had already provided for a ''publica libraria'' in the Foundation Deed of 12 March 1365, where the valuable books bequeathed by deceased members of the university should be collected. Through many legacies, this collection was subsequently greatly increased and became the basis of the old ''Libreye'' that was accommodated in the same building as the student infirmary. In addition, there were libraries in the separate Faculties and in the Duke's College.
From the 17th century onwards, interest in the old library, with its manuscripts and incunabulae, went into decline and the modern library in the Jesuit College came to the fore. In 1756, the oldest university library was finally closed down and its books, 2,787 volumes, were incorporated into the Court Library, of which
Gerard van Swieten
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was then director. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order (1773), the new "Academic Library" was created out of the book collections of the five Lower Austrian Colleges and many duplicates from the Court Library. This was opened on 13 May 1777, the birthday of Maria Theresa of Austria, in the building of the Academic College. Initially, the stock consisted of some 45,000 books and during Emperor Joseph II's dissolution of the monasteries, this was soon considerably extended. In contrast to its antecedents, the new library was open to the general public. Between 1827 and 1829, it acquired the classicist extension (Postgasse 9) to the Academic College, in which it was to be accommodated until 1884. In this year, the main library, with some 300,000 books, moved to
Heinrich von Ferstel
Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel (7 July 1828 14 July 1883) was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.
Life
The son of Ignaz Ferstel (17961866), a bank clerk and later director of the ...
's new Main Building on the Ring, where stacks for some 500,000 volumes had already been prepared. With an annual growth of up to 30,000 volumes, the surplus space was soon filled. Book storage space had to be extended continuously. One hundred years later, the complete library, including departmental and subject libraries, comprised more than 4.3 million volumes. Today, Vienna's University Library is the largest collection of books in Austria, still facing problems of space. In addition to the Main Library, which alone has to cope with an annual growth of 40,000 volumes, it includes three Faculty Libraries, 32 Subject Libraries and 26 Departmental Libraries.
Library statistics
* Book inventory: 7,650,412 (of which 2,900,936 belong to the Main Library)
* Journals: 10,100 in print, 80,000 E-Journals
* Active borrowers:
* Search queries in the online catalogue: 10,942,100
* Borrowings and renewals of books: 3,604,707
* Oldest book:
Pliny the Elder
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International acclaim
The University of Vienna has the highest ranking in Arts and
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, where it is placed 35 and 54th in the world according to the
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and
QS ranking
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
respectively. Outstanding subjects include Geography (ranked 28th globally in 2013), Linguistics and Philosophy (both 46th globally) and Law (ranked 32nd in Europe and 73rd globally). It is rated high in academic reputation and number of international students, but low in terms of faculty to student ratio and citations per faculty.
An overview of the
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
by subjects:
The
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' (often referred to as the THE Rankings) is an annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli ...
by subjects:
Gallery
File:Uni Wien Hallway, Vienna.jpg, A hallway at the University of Vienna
File:Uni Wien Ferstel Denkmal, Vienna.jpg, Bust of Heinrich Ferstel
Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel (7 July 1828 14 July 1883) was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.
Life
The son of Ignaz Ferstel (17961866), a bank clerk and later director of the ...
, the constructor of the main building
File:Erwin Schrodinger at U Vienna.JPG, Bust of Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or , was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theo ...
in the courtyard arcade
File:Ludwig Boltzmann at U Vienna.JPG, Bust of Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of ther ...
in the courtyard arcade
File:Rudolf Scherer.jpg, Bust of Rudolf von Scherer in the courtyard arcade
File:University of Vienna - Botanical Garden.jpg, Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
File:Festsaal - University of Vienna.JPG, Main Ceremonial Chamber (''Festsaal'') in the Main Building
See also
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Education in Austria
The Republic of Austria has a free and public school system, and nine years of education are mandatory. Schools offer a series of vocational-technical and university preparatory tracks involving one to four additional years of education beyond ...
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Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings
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Institute Vienna Circle
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List of medieval universities
The list of medieval universities comprises universities (more precisely, '' studia generalia'') which existed in Europe during the Middle Ages.Rüegg 1992, pp. XIX–XX It also includes short-lived foundations and European educational ins ...
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (German: Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte, BIM) is a Vienna-based research institute affiliated with the Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, that specializes in the area of human right ...
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Roman Sebastian Zängerle
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Vienna Observatory
The Vienna Observatory (german: Universitätssternwarte Wien) is an astronomical observatory in Vienna, Austria. It is part of the University of Vienna. The first observatory was built in 1753–1754 on the roof of one of the university buildings ...
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Francis Stephen Award
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List of Jesuit sites
This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus. In each country, sites are listed in chronological order of start of Jesuit association.
Nearly all these sites have bee ...
Notes and references
External links
University of Vienna(English version)
Information for Students at the University of Vienna(English version)
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1360s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1365 establishments in Europe
14th century in Austria
Educational institutions established in the 14th century
Buildings and structures in Vienna
Universities and colleges in Vienna